Articles by Mark Conrad
Council contractors could now face IR35
By Mark Conrad | 31 October 2017
Local government contractors could soon be subject to the same tough rules on personal service co...
Baroness Warsi: DCLG attracts less-able civil servants
By Mark Conrad | 30 October 2017
Former communities minister Baroness Warsi has questioned the quality of civil servants at the De...
Procurement target delay a 'let down' to small businesses
By Mark Conrad | 25 October 2017
Government officials were this week accused of ‘giving up’ on small businesses after Whitehall de...
New research: Whitehall needs to focus on preventative policies
By Mark Conrad | 19 October 2017
Whitehall is regularly drawn into costly, reactionary spending cycles to mitigate crises within t...
Birmingham fearing welfare crisis if UC rollout continues
By Mark Conrad | 18 October 2017
Britain’s biggest local authority claims it faces a homelessness and debt crisis if ministers plo...
Council in talks with government after Vauxhall blow
By Mark Conrad | 17 October 2017
Cheshire West & Chester Council’s leader is monitoring the situation at Ellesmere Port ‘carefully...
Committee chair claims minister ignoring Universal Credit concerns
By Mark Conrad | 17 October 2017
A senior MP has warned Whitehall may be withholding ‘bad news’ in order to present the ‘mega refo...
Unions claim 'huge victory' in equal pay case
By Mark Conrad | 16 October 2017
Trade unions have claimed a ‘huge victory’ in a long-running equal pay case against St Helens MBC...
Sector's ethnicity under government scrutiny
By Mark Conrad | 10 October 2017
Councils have been warned they must ‘explain or change’ their record on ethnicity despite fresh d...
Core Cities demands more aid in fight against 'invisible killer'
By Mark Conrad | 10 October 2017
Whitehall must give Britain’s urban centres the tools they need to tackle the air pollution that ...
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