Avoiding an expensive white elephant

By Robert Kilgour | 09 October 2024

Robert Kilgour argues Scotland’s National Care Service plans have become a costly ‘cosmetic exerc...

FINANCE

Getting to grips with a tough gig

By Rob Whiteman CBE | 09 October 2024

Public services need bold reform from a fresh government, says Rob Whiteman. He looks at what nee...

INFRASTRUCTURE

Infrastructure: we need new PPP models the private sector can invest in

By Stuart McMillan | 08 October 2024

Labour’s infrastructure plans could mean a bright future for PPPs, and involve a number of models...

FINANCE

Finding hope in public sector collaboration

By Tracie Langley | 04 October 2024

As opportunities to make efficiencies become more scarce, joining up service offers across the pu...

HOUSING

New housing targets – an opportunity to build a stronger bus network?

By Rebecka Steven | 04 October 2024

As the drive for more housing quickens, the public transport implications of where they are built...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Local leadership is the solution

By Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton | 04 October 2024

Cllr Sir Stephen Houghton says local government stand ready to rebuild public services, deliverin...

LEADERSHIP

That's what gets results

By By Kathy O’Leary | 04 October 2024

Kathy O'Leary reflects on the groundwork put in over the (cruel) summer with Stroud DC's new admi...

HOUSING

Where residents rule

By Susmita Sen | 04 October 2024

After a damning television exposé of poor housing conditions on the Regina Road estate in Croydon...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Connecting across missions is easier in places

By Claire Spencer | 04 October 2024

It’s so much easier make the Government's missions link together when you are grounded in places ...

SOCIAL CARE

It's time for a social care revolution

By Sam Newman | 04 October 2024

Before we fix the money for social care we must change the conversation, as a radical alternative...