Opinion

  • Public Finance
    26 Jan 10
    ANTHONY PAINTER | The obvious take on the latest British Social Attitudes is that Britain is becoming more socially liberal. But as we become more tolerant of life choices - homosexual relationships...
  • Public Finance
    25 Jan 10
    INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES | The issue of marriage and family life looks set to be a major election battleground. Analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies – and two new projects funded by...
  • Public Finance
    25 Jan 10
    HEATHER WAKEFIELD | Over 1.5 million local government workers face a pay cut this year after the employers chose not to make a pay offer. Will this create the perfect pay storm?
  • Public Finance
    22 Jan 10
    JOHN THORNTON | Technological advances not only allow more elderly and disabled people to live independently at home, they can save money too
  • Public Finance
    22 Jan 10
    MARGARET CUTHBERT AND JIM CUTHBERT | England could learn from the consequences – both intended and unintended – of Scotland’s free personal care scheme before implementing its own version
  • Public Finance
    22 Jan 10
    JUDY HIRST | For most of the past decade, localism has been the dog that rarely if ever barked. Now though, emboldened by decentralising talk from the opposition parties, it is off the leash, and...
  • Public Finance
    22 Jan 10
    STEPHEN COURT | Spending cuts to higher education will hamper efforts to increase social mobility. So it might be time to ask employers to pay their fair share
  • Public Finance
    22 Jan 10
    NICK JANKEL | ‘Survival of the fittest’ is the default mind-set in professional life. This will have to change if Total Place is to work
  • Public Finance
    21 Jan 10
    STEVE FREER | Sharing and collaboration between public bodies is not a new idea but there are real grounds for optimism that it is an idea whose time has come
  • Public Finance
    20 Jan 10
    AMELIA WALKER | Councils nationwide are holding £18bn in debt, much if it being repaid at levels far above the historic average for interest rates – 9% and more. The LGIU had suggested solutions,...
  • Public Finance
    20 Jan 10
    TESS LANNING | New analysis from the Institute for Public Policy Research shows that unemployment among black and mixed ethnic groups aged between 16 and 24 is higher than for any other groups
  • Public Finance
    19 Jan 10
    MALCOLM PROWLE | The environment, food and rural affairs select committee has criticised the government’s waste strategy for focusing on domestic rather than business rubbish, which represents 90% of...
  • Public Finance
    18 Jan 10
    CONOR RYAN I David Cameron has said today that he wants to make teacher training 'brazenly elitist'. His main proposals are to ban graduates with third class degrees from teacher training and to...
  • Public Finance
    18 Jan 10
    HEATHER WAKEFIELD | Housing policy popped up in the general election campaign last week with the Liberal Democrats pledging to make 760,000 empty homes in England available for people who need them
  • Public Finance
    14 Jan 10
    MALCOLM PROWLE | Our leading bankers told the Treasury committee a usual story this week: unless large bonuses are paid, they will fail to attract or retain talented staff. This raises a number of...
  • Public Finance
    14 Jan 10
    MIKE THATCHER | It might have been trashed by the Tories and lambasted by local government leaders, but the Audit Commission’s new inspection regime could still be here to stay
  • Public Finance
    14 Jan 10
    PETER WILBY | Gordon Brown’s followers claim that the media’s trivialisation of politics writes off good leaders who fail to shine on TV. But politicians do need people skills
  • Public Finance
    14 Jan 10
    ALISON SCOTT | CIPFA has now turned its attention to the vital professional and regulatory role of the chief financial officer in local government
  • Public Finance
    13 Jan 10
    TONY TRAVERS l The weather has once again generated ‘Britain in crisis’ headlines, particularly in relation to the suggestion that some councils were running out of salt
  • Public Finance
    8 Jan 10
    Three days before Christmas is a pretty good time to have a bad news day on funding. With most people either at office parties or out doing some final gift shopping, few will hear the sound of belts...
  • Public Finance
    8 Jan 10
    IAN MULHEIRN | As the Conservative Party's mood turns back towards using the tax system to support traditional family structures, it's worth considering what the evidence says about tax and marriage...
  • Public Finance
    6 Jan 10
    CARLO PERROTTA | As schools get back to work following the Christmas break, some pupils are being asked how to turn their minds to how their school building can be improved under Building Schools for...
  • Public Finance
    5 Jan 10
    GEORGE JONES AND JOHN STEWART | A very significant sentence is hidden away in the appendices to last month’s Pre-Budget Report. You could easily miss it, and it seems many have since it has received...
  • Public Finance
    5 Jan 10
    CONOR RYAN | There is no doubt that the apparently under-resourced Labour election team scored an early victory in the election battle yesterday. The party's efforts to destabilise David Cameron's...
  • Public Finance
    5 Jan 10
    ANNA DIXON | Many of the ideas and policy proposals in the Conservative's draft health manifesto are already current government policy although the suggestion is that they want to go further with...

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