In these times of financial constraint, setting up a wholly owned subsidiary should continue to be a tool in the box health trusts can use, argue NHS Providers’ David Williams and Adam Wright....
Like farmers, we need to monitor the signs carefully and plan accordingly to take control where we can and improve our odds of success, says financial adviser Bob Swarup.
By sharing data and jointly investing in new technologies, councils can improve resilience and cost-effectiveness, says CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman.
Ministers are finally listening to local government and last week’s Budget represented a series of strategic victories for the sector, says James Maker of the County Councils Network.
Many redevelopment schemes in the UK put the onus on corporate profit at the cost of local communities but other countries show there is another way, argues Genevieve Maitland Hudson of Social...
Women in senior leadership positions can positively affect organisational performance. Mechanisms are needed to help them get there, argues Sheila Ellwood of the University of Bristol.
Plastic pollution is a real problem and one the public cares passionately about. The Budget offered a partial solution, says Peter Maddox, charity director at WRAP.
The opportunity to change public procurement rules to promote fairer wages is one Brexit dividend local government could count on, argues Localis’s Joe Fyans.
The disconnect between the rhetoric of ‘ending austerity’ and current spending plans will make next year’s Spending Review harder than it needs to be, argues the IfG’s Graham Atkins.
The chancellor managed to ease the squeeze on the public sector with his Budget on Monday but he dodged the tough decisions needed to come up with long-term solutions for funding services, says the...
The chancellor hasn’t ended austerity. And he’s also missed the opportunity to have an honest conversation with the public about how he plans to pay for public services, says the Institute for...
Philip Hammond faced up to some political and economic conundrums in his first Autumn Budget. Former Treasury adviser Dan Corry considers how well he passed the test.
Financial sustainability, the digital revolution and leaders surrounding themselves with people not afraid to ask questions were themes in Solace’s annual summit last week. The organisation’s...
The end of austerity is unlikely to happen any time soon without tax increases - but what would be helpful is an overhaul of the current spending review framework, says CIPFA’s Alan Bermingham.
Cash-strapped councils increasingly borrowing to invest in commercial properties risk local services - which are often for vulnerable people - being at the mercy of the property market, says CIPFA...
Adopting international accounting standards would keep council house borrowing off the national debt and allow real fiscal autonomy, says Chartered Institute of Housing’s policy adviser John...
Devolution offers a solution to mitigate local government’s powers being stripped back to ‘core offers’ focused on social care but it needs funding to do so, says IPPR North’s Anna Round.
Partnerships between the public and private sector have a future but need another level of scrutiny - which could be done by the people themselves, says deputy director of NLGN Jessica...
Last week’s draft Welsh budget was the first to include Wales-specific income taxes. Guto Ifan of Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre argues that this new fiscal context demands an...
Fiscal devolution and a reconfiguration of political economy in localities will become the battleground of domestic policy in the post-Brexit general election, argues Jonathan Werran.
Local Government Information Unit's chief executive Jonathan Carr-West mulls over what came out of the Conservative Party Conference for the public sector.
Reports of a former minister's ‘horror’ at being given £4.2bn to digitise the NHS without any plan in place show the need for greater transparency, accountability and scrutiny of how the government...
