Prevention – the art of staving off problems before they become large, messy and expensive – has appeared in countless manifestos as a magic wand for fiscal recovery. Yet despatch box promises have...
The UK’s “de facto” flagship industrial policy “appears to have completely failed” to encourage research and development spending, a group of Cambridge academics have found.
Public service leaders in all all sectors and across many countries should always look to learn from each other, writes strategic advisor and commentator John Tizard.
The government has promised an extra £20m towards developing new vaccines for epidemics, including for three programmes aimed at immunising against the deadly coronavirus.
District councils are juggling a host of financial challenges as they face greater spending commitments at a time when funding is falling and when many of the challenges on the horizon are ‘unknowns’.
Aberdeen City Council issued the first investment bond of its kind in Scotland to raise funds to pay for an arena and conference centre, which meant mastering complex reporting and compliance rules....
Finalists for the 2018 Public Finance Innovation Awards were announced this morning, with around 70 organisations, teams and individuals making the grade.
Research commissioned by London mayor Sadiq Khan has found that a ‘hard’ Brexit with no deal between the UK and EU could lead to a lost decade of lower employment and economic growth.
Swap provides ‘health checks’ to give managers an insight into strong and weaker areas of essential corporate functions and tackle the problem of assurance fatigue
The government will invest £246m to make the UK a world leader in electric battery development in a bid to save millions on energy costs and boost productivity.
The government’s Troubled Families programme shows how payment by result contracts can go wrong. But it also shows where they can be improved if public bodies become more specific on what they are...
Olympics host countries are all too keen to show off how amazing their technology is. And their innovations should make other cities better places to liveRead full article here
Sustainable cities are about more than cutting carbon emissions – they involve thinking about how people live, travel and interact with the natural world. Ahead of the UN’s Habitat III...