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Time to revisit our commissioning strategies and challenge contracts?

As some of the more traditional contracting arrangements get called into question, Louise Round asks whether it is time to challenge the notion that large scale contracts bring economies of scale and enhance service quality.

In today's financial climate and becoming increasingly bombarded with salutary tales – Northamptonshire CC, Carillion – it would be a foolish chief executive who left anything in her organisation to chance.

So it was, with some trepidation, that I persuaded councillors to join the growing number of councils operating local lotteries to raise funds for voluntary sector organisations in their areas.

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