IAN MULHEIRN | All the political parties are competing to find solutions to the record numbers of unemployed young people. But this should not be at the expense of the over-24s
VIVIENNE RUSSELL | The prime minister, who yearns to regain his reputation for careful stewardship of the nation’s finances, put fiscal responsibility firmly at the heart of his new, and possibly...
JONATHAN BLAND | Today is Social Enterprise Day, and a fitting day indeed to find out that social enterprises are bucking the trend during the recession and are optimistic about future growth
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
