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Andrew Jepp

Articles by Andrew Jepp

Scanning the horizon

By Andrew Jepp | 09 November 2017

Andrew Jepp, managing director at Zurich Municipal, says local authorities must plan for the risk...

Re-imagining the future of public services

By Andrew Jepp | 09 November 2017

With Andrew Jepp, Managing Director at Zurich Municipal

Restoring public trust in council data-stewardship

By Andrew Jepp | 07 May 2015

With most of us now going online for public services, the pressure is on for councils to address ...

Rising to meet the new risks

By Andrew Jepp | 10 April 2015

Councils will be exposed to new risks - reputational, operational and financial – and increasing ...

Retrenchment would be the worst thing councils could do

By Andrew Jepp | 23 December 2014

Funding cuts continue to dominate the local council agenda and last week’s announcement of 2015/1...

Risks of retrenchment

By Andrew Jepp | 04 December 2014

The big risk to local government is that as cutbacks reduce services further, they expose themsel...

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.

Detroit or bust

By Andrew Jepp | 08 January 2014

After filing for bankruptcy last year, Detroit became an international poster-boy for the dire st...

Great expectations in hard times

By Andrew Jepp | 09 January 2013

An 'expectation gap' is emerging in the era of austerity, Andrew Jepp explains.

The ongoing challenge of spending cuts

By Andrew Jepp | 26 October 2011

One year after CSR, Andrew Jupp comments that for councils the challenge of balancing cuts and de...