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WHITEHALL

Councils hit with new productivity demands

By Mark Conrad | 16 April 2024

Ministers have demanded councils improve their productivity in the same week as the Government qu...

FINANCE

Bridging the budget gap

By Tracie Langley | 10 April 2024

We haven’t even closed down the 2023-24 accounts yet and we are already starting to plan our 2025...

WHITEHALL

The dead hand of centralism holds back productivity

By Ian Miller | 20 March 2024

If councils had the tools, most if not all of them could by now have set fees to recover the full...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Desperately seeking a long-term diagnosis

By Iain Murray | 11 March 2024

A successful economy needs to be built around world-class infrastructure  - and skilled, healthy ...

ADULT SOCIAL CARE

Working with Government can deliver real dividends

By Cllr Kevin Bentley | 15 February 2024

Collaboration with Government can achieve real results for communities and councils should not be...

WHITEHALL

REVEALED: Productivity plan demands toothless

By Martin Ford | 13 February 2024

Councils have been told Whitehall will be unable to force them to submit productivity plans.

FINANCE

Productivity planning and commercial efficacy

13 February 2024

Through many of its commercial programmes Local Partnerships sees daily how further enhancements ...

FINANCE

Going with the flow

By Tracie Langley | 17 January 2024

Tracie Langley looks at how a renewed focus on productivity and ‘flow’ methodologies can help mak...

FINANCE

It's crucial to preserve the future of local autonomy

By Cllr Bridget Smith | 04 January 2024

Leader of South Cambridgeshire DC Cllr Bridget Smith sets out why the UK Government should let lo...

AUSTERITY

Can we learn from the authorities who are coping with austerity well?

By Ben Page | 04 December 2023

AI has huge potential to save time in local government if people can be encouraged to use it, say...

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Broxbourne Borough Council

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