Plans to roll out strategic authorities across England, sweeping away dozens of district councils and years of careful incremental change, have sparked a flurry of activity across the sector as...
The number of PFI project handbacks will increase significantly in 2025 and subsequent years. Are contracting authorities prepared for new ways of financing these assets? Jamie Hailstone investigates.
Delivering infrastructure projects to time and budget has been a national bugbear for decades. Will government reforms due this year make any difference?
The government’s new-home pledge and prioritising of social housing is welcome news, but councils are facing a dire situation with massive housing revenue account deficits.
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...
Record high inflation after the pandemic triggered the standard response of interest rate rises by the Bank of England, but with limited effectiveness and disastrous consequences for the general...
The rural idyll is central to British culture but its inhabitants are protesting over energy, crime and failing infrastructure. PF finds out what’s gone wrong.
The UK’s two intellectual powerhouses are turning bold ideas into solutions to solve the climate crisis and public sector funding pressures together. PF investigates.
An affront to justice, a two-decade cover-up and a bill for taxpayers of £1.2bn. But it took a TV drama to wake Westminster up to the Post Office scandal. PF explores.
Asylum in the UK is a government problem and human catastrophe. Local services are under pressure, and vulnerable people are the biggest losers. PF investigates.
Could ideas from Victorian times help solve pressing problems like climate change or factory sweatshops? We’ve found the early adopters who think they can.
