When the waters of deficit reduction have subsided the total place legacy will be there to help in the process of rebuilding public services. The brand will disappear, but the principles will be ...

Projects to trial local services in supporting claimants who have difficulty in coping with the all computerised Universal Credit benefits system are to be set up in six areas. Universal Credit is ...

The Prime Minister and the Health and the Communities Secretaries have set out their vision of public services of the future. The Local Government Association has set out a vision which involves a ...

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 ...

Councils are facing unprecedented challenges with the most severe budget cuts in living memory likely to be announced in the coming months. At the same time there is a need to transform services with ...

Good customer insight provides a rich understanding of customers’ behaviour, experiences, beliefs, needs and desires. But councils need to sharpen up their act if they are going to use customer ...

The briefing material of new, or perhaps re-shuffled ministers, will include reports relating to total place which were published in the run up to the election. Taken together they form a blue print ...

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 ...

The Adam Smith Institute has called for the Green belt to be abolished to solve the UK housing crisis. In a new report, The Green Noose, author Tom Papwort, sets out an analysis of Green Belts and ...

A new study is warning that making young offenders wear high-visibility vests as they carry out community service could backfire. Researchers from the University of Portsmouth say it could result in ...

The Government is looking at making data held by Ordnance Survey more freely available as a way of driving improvements in public services. Gordon Brown told a seminar on Smarter Government that the ...