Technology is removing the barriers of location, expense and speed to collaboration. Imaginative ideas – think Airbnb and taxi apps – don’t have to be confined to the private sector
The successful development of shared services by South Yorkshire Police and neighbouring forces highlights the virtues of understanding the full impact of budget cuts
With continuing tight budgets and deficit reduction policies the only certainty for the public sector, the pressure is on to deliver savings while improving services. Increased collaboration can cut...
This year, CIPFA and Public Finance are celebrating individuals with outstanding records in innovation. Given the public sector’s ongoing need to do more with less, role models adept at new thinking...
Twenty councils from across England have been selected for the expansion of a Whitehall programme to help central and local government cut costs by sharing offices and other property.
A Whitehall programme to help central and local government share offices and other property is to be extended to 15 new authorities across the country.