This report commissioned by the Rural Services Network concluded that existing measures are inadequate to the scale of the problem. The research confirmed expectations that fuel disadvantage is having ...

Sharing is an increasingly important element of local public services sourcing strategy with benefits extending well beyond cost saving says latest Socitm Pocket Guide. The Guide, from the Society of ...

When the waters of deficit reduction have subsided the total place legacy will be there to help in the process of rebuilding public services. The brand will disappear, but the principles will be ...

A new era is dawning in which information sharing between social workers, multi-agency teams and families will help ensure vulnerable children get the support they need, sooner. Mark Raeburn lays out ...

The collapse of Carillion and cuts in public service capital spending are having a devastating effect on sub-contractors. Major construction companies secure most of the public service contracts who ...

ICT professionals must take a lead in pursuing the digital agenda, as well as running their legacy estates. Failure to do this will mean that others will decide the future direction of ICT in their ...

This programme is now available to view on egovtv.tv, the online television channel for public service modernisation. It describes a pioneering mobile chemotherapy service from cancer charity Tenovus.

Placed based budgets, which are vital to the development of the total place approach, are supported by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles. He revealed that among other supporters are the Prime ...

This survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development reveals how public sector organizations are responding to the budget cuts. 59 per cent of public organizations are cutting ...

How do we face the uncertainty and complexity of the future? An overly optimistic perspective can be motivating but easily dismissed as naive or shallow; the pessimistic outlook may be considered to ...

With the challenge of finding ways to cut budgets by 25 per cent, a survey has revealed that public services find difficulty in analysing how taxpayers’ money is spent. There is a limited use of ...

Leader to Leader 2 brings together the best and most popular articles from the award-winning journal Leader to Leader by some of the best-selling authors and thought leaders. The book is designed as a ...