The transition from Compulsory Competitive Tendering to the Best Value initiative has receive a boost with the announcement more flexible rules and incentives to seek competition.Regulations on CCT ...

Council tenants who take over managing their own housing estates can achieve high quality services at reasonable costs, according to an independent report.Research by a team from Oxford Brookes ...

This publication from the think tank Localis suggests that councils should set self-imposed targets to reduce expenditure by around 20 per cent by 2011. They are urged to reassess their priorities ...

New initiatives have been launched across Government departments to promote the development of social enterprise as a business model which holds social and environmental value as important as ...

The government’s flagship welfare reform, Universal Credit, which has encountered leadership and technical problems, is now recovering some of the time lost in the last 3 years. By Spring 2015 one in ...

Many retail markets have been in decline over the last 20 years. Typically, local authorities manage markets, but they have suffered from lack of investment. Councils commonly choose instead to ...

Advocates the adoption of standards in local government public service environments, arguing that with the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering UK councils have become increasingly quality ...

Ensuring high quality service levels is at the heart of efficiency whether the organisation makes heavy machinery or collects council tax. The Society of IT Management plans to introduce a service ...

Surveys a random sample of 1,000 UK personnel managers about their perceptions of the level of dishonesty in their workplaces, the importance they place on honesty and integrity, and the measures ...

Four London boroughs are to share almost a million pounds to help them bring about improvements in their councils and to share expertise with other boroughs across the political spectrum. The support ...

Pressures to integrate health and social care are steadily rising. Increasing life expectancy, the ability to treat more conditions and unsustainable cost rises are driving the rethinking process. In ...

An increasing number of communities are becoming involved in the fight against crime as police forces implement policing pledges. A key feature of the pledge is that it allows people to have a ...