As cross-party talks on social care reform bring the future funding of elderly care into the spotlight, Ian Stone, sales, marketing and development Director at apetito examines the vital role ...

The total place approach is already gaining ground and the task now is to take it forward into everyday behaviour in public services. This round up of views from the regional improvement and ...

Communities and Local Government have set out a baseline for evaluating the Local Enterprise Growth Initiative which funds twenty partnerships to increase levels of enterprise in deprived areas. The ...

Placed based budgets, which are vital to the development of the total place approach, are supported by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles. He revealed that among other supporters are the Prime ...

With the challenge of finding ways to cut budgets by 25 per cent, a survey has revealed that public services find difficulty in analysing how taxpayers’ money is spent. There is a limited use of ...

The 32 London councils and the City of London are collaborating to take a more joined- up, Total Place style approach, through improved partnership working. A report from PA Consulting Group ...

By Chris Holmes There is growing concern about communities in Britain which do not function properly, especially some of the estates built as social housing that are now occupied only by people with ...

ICT professionals must take a lead in pursuing the digital agenda, as well as running their legacy estates. Failure to do this will mean that others will decide the future direction of ICT in their ...

The first cohort of heads of children’s services to take part in a leadership development programme will start the course later this year. The programme is to be run jointly by the National College of ...

Describes the recently revamped system used by the UK government department, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to recruit staff, showing how the introduction of competency-based selection and a ...

This SOCITM report sheds some light on the impact of outsourcing local authority ICT services, suggesting that authorities with significantly outsourced ICT services spend 25% more per user and that ...

By Jacqueline A-M. Coyle-Shapiro and Ian Kessler.Given that the contingent worker is likely to be a familiar presence in the public service workplace of the future, this paper explores the ...