Joining up with the third sector can help local authorities to provide good services on shrinking incomes. But, as ever, there are risks as well as rewards, says Andrew Jepp
So Mr 25% has become Mr 19%. Chancellor George Osborne announced some serious cuts in this week's Comprehensive Spending Review, but not quite on the scale previously forecast...
If there is one word that sums up yesterday's Comprehensive Spending Review it is insecurity. Today, Britain is a much less secure place than it was yesterday, nationally, socially and individually
Chancellor George Osborne is hoping that his deficit reduction measures lead to a clean cut. But the difficulties of implementing reform will blunt the blade
Tomorrow's Spending Review should explain whether the government will use cuts in welfare, specifically from child benefit, to fund the bulk of the pupil premium
We all await the results of the Comprehensive Spending Review. But there is a danger that it will be a fig leaf exercise in protecting certain activities for naked political reasons
The Great Quango Cull has turned out to be rather less dramatic than advertised, and the reasons given have shifted from being about saving money to increasing accountability
There is always value in having a fresh pair of eyes to assess how things are done - and Sir Philip Green's recent report highlights many examples of waste in government spending
Much of the pre-Spending Review debate has been about which part of government will bear the brunt of the cuts. But how will the combination of tax rises and spending cuts impact on the UK economy...
Sir Philip Green has highlighted numerous examples of waste resulting from poor procurement practice across government. The big question that he does not address is how to put this right
Lord Browne has proposed that new institutions provide higher education. We may see bodies offering single degree subjects in a similar way to the independent sector treatment centres that...
There is a serious proposal on the table that the corporation tax rate in Northern Ireland be reduced from the current 28% that it shares with the rest of the UK to the 12.5% rate that the Republic...
The publication of Lord Hutton's interim report into the future of public sector pensions was met with comment bordering on hysteria in certain quarters and some degree of entrenchment