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27 Oct 17
Brexit brings with it an opportunity to embed social value into public procurement practices, says Matthew Jackson of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies
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21 Jun 16
A local social stock exchange is to be piloted in Liverpool and the Wirral, it was announced today.
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31 May 16
Two thirds of councils do not routinely consider social value in their commissioning decisions, despite a duty to do so, a report has found.
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30 Nov 15
Social benefits are a major area of expenditure for most governments. A common standard for accounting for these has now been drafted
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30 Apr 15
Social investment has been hyped as the solution to myriad problems. And there’s much to recommend it—but the new government should steer clear of the over-excited rhetoric
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1 Mar 15
It’s probably time to give up on the idea that central government has the political will to fix local government’s problems. We need a bottom-up transformation of how local services work.
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5 Jan 15
Tougher regulation of the private-rented sector is needed in order to stop landlords from exploiting the housing crisis at the expense of taxpayers and tenants, according to the Civitas think-tank.
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27 Nov 14
Local government minister Kris Hopkins has today awarded grants to 73 public service integration schemes that are expected to lead to more than £900m in efficiencies across the public sector.
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22 Aug 14
Policy Exchange has encouraged politicians from all parties to develop a plan to improve the condition of Britain’s social housing estates. The think-tank said decades of neglect had led to social...
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18 Jul 14
Proposed audit regulations for England’s 10,000 parish councils are overly complex and ‘close to impenetrable’, the Audit Commission has warned.