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20 Feb 09
CAREY OPPENHEIM | As unemployment rises, it is easy to point the finger at foreign workers.
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20 Feb 09
NIGEL KEOGH | The government this month launched a consultation on consolidating regulations for local government pension funds.
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20 Feb 09
MIKE THATCHER | Blink, and you might have missed it. This week the Conservatives launched Control shift, their long-trailed green paper on returning power to local communities. It generated only a...
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20 Feb 09
HELEN DISNEY | Being in charge of welfare-to-work in a recession is something of a poisoned chalice. Nevertheless, the Conservative Party this week made the government’s welfare task even grimmer...
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13 Feb 09
AKASH PAUN | Central government has promised an equal relationship with its local counterparts through Local Area Agreements.
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13 Feb 09
MIKE THATCHER | The disgraced bankers hauled in front of the Treasury select committee this week knew the role they had to play. They were to offer heartfelt apologies and then prepare for a...
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13 Feb 09
MELISSA BENN | The tone was positively Churchillian: ‘Britain can beat this… just like we’ve beaten everything else this world has thrown at us. We’ll win by pulling together, not by facing the...
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6 Feb 09
We owe a sincere vote of thanks to Ian Carruthers and his CIPFA panel for its hard work in producing the Statement on the role of the finance director
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6 Feb 09
Peter Glynn raises an important point in how the public sector needs to re-evaluate its approach to realising benefits in times of a recession
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6 Feb 09
COLIN TALBOT | Predictions of a ‘short, shallow downturn’ in the UK economy have been proved wide of the mark.
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6 Feb 09
IAIN MACWHIRTER | When the Scottish opposition parties defeated the minority government’s budget, you would have expected them to push home their advantage, not rush to save both the Bill and the...
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6 Feb 09
GRAHAM ALLEN | Youth problems are a drain on society and the taxpayer.
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6 Feb 09
MIKE THATCHER | This week’s extreme ‘snow event’ temporarily distracted attention away from that other extraordinary and exceptional mishap – the complete meltdown of the economy.
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6 Feb 09
DAVID LIPSEY | Politics has few more frightening sights than Business Secretary Peter Mandelson in contempt mode.
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30 Jan 09
IAN CARRUTHERS | The role of the public service finance director has steadily evolved and is now more important than ever.
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30 Jan 09
MIKE THATCHER | Another week, another bail-out. But this time it was the car industry that benefited from a government desperate to be seen to be doing something as the economy collapses.
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30 Jan 09
VICTORIA MACDONALD | At a recent lunch for journalists in the House of Commons, Health Secretary Alan Johnson joked that under the new NHS Constitution ‘the broccoli police’ would not be sent in to...
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29 Jan 09
GAIL CARTMAIL | Public sector pensions have long been a target of attack for business leaders.
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23 Jan 09
IAN O'DONNELL | Organisations can potentially lose millions of pounds through fraud.
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23 Jan 09
RAY JONES | The media frenzy against social workers that started with the death of Baby P has missed the point.
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23 Jan 09
MIKE THATCHER | Many of the challenges to the US economy articulated so eloquently by Barack Obama in his inauguration speech could equally be applied to the UK.
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23 Jan 09
PETER WILBY | One strength of the US system of government is that it allows, from time to time, a completely fresh start.
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16 Jan 09
The charges against International Financial Reporting Standards and International Public Sector Accounting Standards — that they produce confusing and even inaccurate accounts — are not entirely the...
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16 Jan 09
PAUL O'BRIEN | PF’s round table on outsourcing discussed burning issues for the future of public services.
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16 Jan 09
PETER MARSH | Public participation should not be limited to TV talent shows.
20 Feb 09CAREY OPPENHEIM | As unemployment rises, it is easy to point the finger at foreign workers.
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