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HEALTH

A guaranteed Sure Start

By Jamie Hailstone | 26 March 2014

A challenge facing any incoming Government after 2015 will be to rekindle the ambition and restat...

FINANCE

A missed opportunity for the two Eds

By Michael Burton | 26 March 2014

After four years of austerity we are still nowhere near seeing the light at the end of the tunnel...

WHITEHALL

Whitehall Inside View - GOD does wellbeing

By Jonathan Werran | 26 March 2014

Lord O'Donnell's intervention is timely - there's more to life than money as far as voters are co...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

My fantasy budget

By Alexandra Jones | 25 March 2014

In an ideal world, here is how Alexandra Jones hoped to be responding to this year’s Budget annou...

FINANCE

Three steps to effective local procurement

By Kristian Smith | 21 March 2014

Council procurement has to meet local needs through effective service design and delivery, writes...

Biggest impact of welfare reform yet to come

By Paul Dossett | 21 March 2014

“Never again should the welfare system be allowed to spiral out of control,” the Chancellor said ...

More cuts will be extremely difficult to implement

By David Borrow | 20 March 2014

With a general election looming you would expect this year’s Budget to be an unabashed attempt at...

Councils are still not realising the potential of digital

By Maia Beresford | 20 March 2014

Councils are struggling to do more with less and digital technology can help them do this.

Review public services in post-austerity Britain

By Merrick Cockell | 20 March 2014

The national housing shortage and lack of jobs for young people are two of the most pressing issu...

FINANCE

No quick fixes on road to recovery

By Andrew Jepp | 19 March 2014

Andrew Jepp analyses what local government got and lost from the 2014 Budget.