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10 Jul 15
The silos of Westminster and Whitehall are not impregnable. Hard-won lessons from the Total Place initiative point the way to improved public service alignment
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7 Jul 15
London’s tri- and bi-borough arrangements prove the enormous potential for local government collaboration. You just need to be committed to the end result
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7 Jul 15
Embracing collaboration in public sector organisations requires effective leadership and the engagement of employees in decision-making from the start
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26 May 15
Amy Armstrong describes how organisations can foster a culture of compassion to help managers support employees with dignity and care when they have to cope with bereavement, critical illness or...
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20 May 15
Chris Naylor has moved from suburban Barnet, and the London borough’s controversial outsourcing of public services, to be chief executive at working class Barking & Dagenham, where he sees...
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30 Apr 15
Five years of radical changes in education policy have created thousands of academy and free schools. But have financial management and governance kept pace?
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24 Apr 15
Philip Green is Chairman of Carillion and BakerCorp, Chairman Designate of Williams & Glyn - the challenger bank being spun out of RBS - and Senior Independent Director of Saga. He is also...
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25 Mar 15
The Private Finance Initiative has come in for some harsh criticism over the years, decried as inflexible and expensive. But with the right approach, PFI can deliver significant savings and improved...
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23 Mar 15
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...
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3 Mar 15
Ministers need to work out a stable way to fund the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, as current financial management arrangements are a ‘recipe for failure’, MPs have warned.
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16 Feb 15
Recent reports of ineffective local government scrutiny reflect a hard if disappointing reality. But it’s important that councils invest in an enhanced scrutiny function – it will pay for...
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13 Feb 15
Sir Roger Carr is Chairman of BAE Systems, a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group, Senior Advisor to KKR and a Visiting Fellow of Saïd Business School. Sir Roger was formerly...
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22 Jan 15
Advances in technology have brought profound changes to the nature of work – but have our notions about what motivates people kept pace?
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16 Jan 15
The Department for Communities and Local Government’s new permanent secretary should ensure that mature debate should replace rhetoric and spin that can emanate from Whitehall
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12 Nov 14
The public sector often struggles to innovate - there’s no shortage of ideas, but does it have the culture, structures and skills required to exploit the innovative thinking that is generated?
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10 Nov 14
Valerie Pierce suggests ways to take the weight off your shoulders when the competing demands of the job pile up and conflicting priorities threaten your sense of perspective – and the morale of
your...
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1 Oct 14
Welsh town and community councils need to do more to address systemic weaknesses in financial management, according to the Wales Audit Office.
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26 Sep 14
The digital revolution means the ways we communicate are fragmenting. So how do employers and staff talk to each other, and how should we use social media to tell the outside world about what we...
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4 Sep 14
The government still has a long way to go before it has proper control of the £40bn it spends annually on contracts with the private sector, the National Audit Office has said.
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1 Sep 14
Cardiff Council has been criticised by the Auditor General for Wales for not addressing weak performance in some key service areas due to what it called ‘fragmented leadership and management’.
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11 Aug 14
A programme to develop civil servants’ project management skills has been established by the Cabinet Office as part of government moves to improve the performance of major taxpayer-funded schemes.
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1 May 14
With huge changes to NHS structures and culture, it’s an exciting time to be working in health policy. Nigel Edwards, the new chief executive of the Nuffield Trust thinktank, talks to PF about...
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31 Mar 14
Management decisions based on hunches and intuition resemble 17th century medicine – witchcraft with added leeches. So, asks Alasdair Robertson, how do you assemble a business case that appeals to...
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25 Mar 14
The civil service must begin preparations for the post-election Spending Review in 2015 now to ensure planned public spending cuts can be delivered, the Institute for Government has said.
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15 Oct 13
Many councils are struggling to improve their child protection services and need better leadership to bring about sustained improvement in performance, Ofsted has warned today.
10 Jul 15The silos of Westminster and Whitehall are not impregnable. Hard-won lessons from the Total Place initiative point the way to improved public service alignment
7 Jul 15London’s tri- and bi-borough arrangements prove the enormous potential for local government collaboration. You just need to be committed to the end result
7 Jul 15Embracing collaboration in public sector organisations requires effective leadership and the engagement of employees in decision-making from the start
26 May 15Amy Armstrong describes how organisations can foster a culture of compassion to help managers support employees with dignity and care when they have to cope with bereavement, critical illness or...
20 May 15Chris Naylor has moved from suburban Barnet, and the London borough’s controversial outsourcing of public services, to be chief executive at working class Barking & Dagenham, where he sees...
30 Apr 15Five years of radical changes in education policy have created thousands of academy and free schools. But have financial management and governance kept pace?
24 Apr 15Philip Green is Chairman of Carillion and BakerCorp, Chairman Designate of Williams & Glyn - the challenger bank being spun out of RBS - and Senior Independent Director of Saga. He is also...
25 Mar 15The Private Finance Initiative has come in for some harsh criticism over the years, decried as inflexible and expensive. But with the right approach, PFI can deliver significant savings and improved...
23 Mar 15This 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...
3 Mar 15Ministers need to work out a stable way to fund the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, as current financial management arrangements are a ‘recipe for failure’, MPs have warned.
16 Feb 15Recent reports of ineffective local government scrutiny reflect a hard if disappointing reality. But it’s important that councils invest in an enhanced scrutiny function – it will pay for...
13 Feb 15Sir Roger Carr is Chairman of BAE Systems, a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group, Senior Advisor to KKR and a Visiting Fellow of Saïd Business School. Sir Roger was formerly...
22 Jan 15Advances in technology have brought profound changes to the nature of work – but have our notions about what motivates people kept pace?
16 Jan 15The Department for Communities and Local Government’s new permanent secretary should ensure that mature debate should replace rhetoric and spin that can emanate from Whitehall
12 Nov 14The public sector often struggles to innovate - there’s no shortage of ideas, but does it have the culture, structures and skills required to exploit the innovative thinking that is generated?
10 Nov 14Valerie Pierce suggests ways to take the weight off your shoulders when the competing demands of the job pile up and conflicting priorities threaten your sense of perspective – and the morale of your...
1 Oct 14Welsh town and community councils need to do more to address systemic weaknesses in financial management, according to the Wales Audit Office.
26 Sep 14The digital revolution means the ways we communicate are fragmenting. So how do employers and staff talk to each other, and how should we use social media to tell the outside world about what we...
4 Sep 14The government still has a long way to go before it has proper control of the £40bn it spends annually on contracts with the private sector, the National Audit Office has said.
1 May 14With huge changes to NHS structures and culture, it’s an exciting time to be working in health policy. Nigel Edwards, the new chief executive of the Nuffield Trust thinktank, talks to PF about...
31 Mar 14Management decisions based on hunches and intuition resemble 17th century medicine – witchcraft with added leeches. So, asks Alasdair Robertson, how do you assemble a business case that appeals to...
25 Mar 14The civil service must begin preparations for the post-election Spending Review in 2015 now to ensure planned public spending cuts can be delivered, the Institute for Government has said.
