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Resources review: localism in action?

By Joanna Averley | 27 July 2011

Joanna Averley looks at in more detail the recent publication of the Local Government Resources R...

Are you accountable?

By Stephen Bubb | 27 July 2011

If the third sector is delivering more taxpayer-funded contracts it will need to be more accounta...

Phone hacking and widening the net of transparency

By Paul Wheeler | 27 July 2011

Paul Wheeler wonders if calls for scrutiny and transparency should be widened in the wake of the ...

FINANCE

The search for financial consensus

By Dan Corry | 27 July 2011

Localising business rates could see affluent councils breaking away from their more deprived cous...

Private sector health care and payment for training

27 July 2011

The GDP figures and Osborne's public spending plans

26 July 2011

FINANCE

Transformation demands community budgets

By Elizabeth Fells | 26 July 2011

Community budgets should be rolled out nationally if we really want to transform the delivery of ...

HEALTH

More adoption could save in the long term

25 July 2011

Two reports this week examine both ends of the care system, one from Dilnott on adult care and th...

FINANCE

Time to nudge, smack, hug or shove - whatever works

25 July 2011

It appears that the government campaign to spread the use positive incentives to change behaviour...

Should councils be buying Ipads?

25 July 2011