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Councils missing out on shared services cost savings
By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011
Local authorities are failing to use shared services to drive cost savings and efficiency gains, ...
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Councils failing to plan for savings targets
By Jonathan Werran | 06 June 2011
A quarter of councils don’t expect to meet savings targets by 2014 and 40% have no approved plan ...
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Re-imagining government
05 June 2011
The inteface of politics, policy and public management fascinates Barry Quirk. Now he has written...
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Blowing hot and cold
By Chris Game | 03 June 2011
A brightly-coloured ‘heat map’ which claims to show levels of local council spending is inaccurat...
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Maude expects annual £3bn savings from central purchasing team
By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2011
Whitehall departments may save up to £3bn a year from the centralised purchasing of common goods ...
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Union fury at Service Birmingham's 'outrageous' offshoring decision
By Jonathan Werran | 03 June 2011
Unions have called on Birmingham City Council to halt plans to outsource more than 70 IT jobs to ...
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Local say so
01 June 2011
Giving people a direct say in setting budget priorities could help deliver better services, sugge...
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Ex-NAO boss doubts savings can be made
By Jonathan Werran | 01 June 2011
Sir John Bourn, former head of the National Audit Office, has cast further doubt over the Governm...
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'More partnerships' to finance future services
By Mark Conrad | 01 June 2011
Successful councils of the future will be increasingly ‘agnostic’ about how they finance and deli...
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Worries over cuts to funds for child asylum-seekers
By Mark Conrad | 01 June 2011
Councils risk breaching a duty to care for unaccompanied child asylum-seekers, if plans to cut de...
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