Risk registers are becoming ever-more numerous and elaborate, but they are not worth the Word documents they are printed on if they fail to engage with the everyday business of their organisation
Neighbourhood boards are the latest big idea for getting the public to improve the services they use. But will this US invention work here, asks Chris Skelcher
If the forthcoming social care green paper avoids spelling out the cost of long-term care for older people, Sir Derek Wanless's review is likely to be less coy, argues Paul Gosling
Local government unions look likely to press ahead with ballots for industrial action over controversial new pension regulations, despite last-minute talks with ministers to avert politically...
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott urged Labour councillors to unite behind the party and 'stop talking and scribbling' in the run-up to the general and county council elections.
A ground-breaking Private Finance Initiative scheme that could lead to a significant increase in social housing in north London has been drawn up by six local authorities.
Emergency funding introduced two years ago following the surprise abolition of local authority social housing grant has failed to provide as many homes as forecast.
Performance indicators to help local authorities improve procurement practices and meet their Gershon savings targets have been published by the Improvement and Development Agency.
Nightmare neighbours who hold communities to ransom with threatening and intimidating behaviour are to be offered a last chance to change their ways before being evicted from their homes.
The Audit Commission is to slash £18m from public bodies' annual inspection bills after a review concluded that significant areas of the regulator's activities do not represent value for money.
Paul Boateng has given the green light to development work on a cost index that would accurately reflect the financial pressures faced by local authorities, Public Finance has learned.
