Your web story ‘Best councils “penalised” by audit fee changes, says LGA’ included a misleading comment from the Local Government Association regarding the Audit Commission’s new scales of fees
JIM GEE | There might be another way to achieve major savings. We could start by combating fraud more effectively, in both the public and private sectors
JOAN MUNRO | The results of the Local Government Workforce Survey 2009 show that most chief executives now recognise the importance of a skilled and motivated workforce in delivering their...
TONY TRAVERS | As Britain rushes headlong towards a general election, the political parties are starting to put forward new ideas for public service reform, including ‘localism’
MELISSA BENN | The PM surprised many with his call for a ‘Tobin tax’ on banks. But the move is in tune with the economic climate and public distaste for excessive earnings
STEPHEN COURT | Does university freedom matter? Universities in the UK have, in theory, freedom – or more precisely, autonomy - from political interference to decide which students to enrol, what to...
HEATHER WAKEFIELD | Sorry to be a party-pooper, but this has been another of ‘those’ weeks in Unison’s local government section – an increasingly familiar week, in which our ‘Jobs Watch’ tracked the...
JACKIE ASHLEY | The Kelly report has proposed controversial reforms to expenses, but we
are no nearer knowing whether MPs are actually doing their jobs properly
JOE FARRINGTON-DOUGLAS | At the risk of over-extending a metaphor, is it possible to change the mood music in health policy without a touch of discord?
JUDY HIRST | These are uncharted waters for the public finances. Few of those trying to steer a way through the wreckage wreaked by financial meltdown have a map, let alone a moral compass, to...
MARK HELLOWELL | There is now widespread concern that the rate of capital expenditure in the UK will be inadequate for a very long period, hampering growth and damaging public services. Encouragingly...
DAVE LEWIS | The Environment Agency has just started writing to organisations with details of qualification for the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme
CONOR RYAN | The parties are pushing any decision on increased university tuition fees until after a 2010 election. All the predictions suggest that the review will propose that fees increase from...