Mental health services are undergoing change with the creation of more foundation trusts. This change has brought a need for business intelligence so that information is available on care delivered, ...

At the same time councils face the increasing challenge of an ageing population and increased citizen expectations, they are also faced with the shrinking of public spending. As a result, councils and ...

A new report identifies English cities that have topped the growth league from 2004 to 2012 and those that are set to top the league in years ahead. The report from Grant Thornton ranks English cities ...

With the latest figures showing that the number of young people not in employment, education or training has risen by 1.3 percent compared to the same quarter last year, the charity UK Youth has ...

A national poll of local government executives finds that whilst there is some support for the Big Society initiative, there are deep concerns about the implications for local government resource ...

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 report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Management explores the different ways in which organisations are finding creative solutions to talent management in the recession. Most ...

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 ...

The Government is being urged to ensure that mental health does not lose out in its plans to reform the NHS. The charity, Mind, said the litmus test of the new-look service would be whether or not it ...

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 ...

The Prime Minister and the Health and the Communities Secretaries have set out their vision of public services of the future. The Local Government Association has set out a vision which involves a ...

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 ...