Workplace authenticity should matter to everyone, but does the responsibility for it lie with managers or individuals? Robin Ryde and Lisa Sofianos set out their philosophy. The management task, and ...

Theft of data is becoming more prevalent and sophisticated. A worrying development is taking over the user account rather than creating a new account with stolen data. Data verification checks have no ...

The stated mission of the police service is to ‘serve and protect’ the public. But a string of centrally imposed, top-down management ‘fixes’ has forced many officers to focus instead on serving the ...

The volume of data available to public sector organisations to allow them to manage more efficiently is growing rapidly. The problem is that the expanding mass of data can lead to a decline in control ...

The Department of Health and NHS England are struggling to allocate funding fairly to local commissioners of healthcare, according to the National Audit Office. A total of £79 billion has been ...

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 ...

Participatory Budgeting complements devolution from localism, community budgets and the Big Society. These are all new developments since it came on the scene in 2006. This report describes how it has ...

Stuart Derbyshire, head of public sector at Office Depot, looks at the increasing popularity of e-tendering among public organisations, and how to get the most out of the process to ensure that tender ...

Ofsted is publishing a report today to highlight the achievements of 20 primary schools, which have each been rated as ‘outstanding’ at least twice in spite of facing serious challenges. Ofsted ...

The Care Quality Commission is warning that Primary Care Trusts may not be monitoring performance of GP out-of-hours services effectively and that there is a risk they will fail to spot patient safety ...

A major exercise is to take place to test national and regional readiness to deal with severe flooding from rivers, the sea, reservoirs, groundwater and surface water. It will begin with a pilot next ...

A new era is dawning in which information sharing between social workers, multi-agency teams and families will help ensure vulnerable children get the support they need, sooner. Mark Raeburn lays out ...