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The transition from Compulsory Competitive Tendering to the Best Value initiative has receive a boost with the announcement more flexible rules and incentives to seek competition.Regulations on CCT ...

The importance of working smarter, not just harder, has been underlined by the Trade Secretary’s launch of a new programme to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who have innovative ...

Council tenants who take over managing their own housing estates can achieve high quality services at reasonable costs, according to an independent report.Research by a team from Oxford Brookes ...

This publication from the think tank Localis suggests that councils should set self-imposed targets to reduce expenditure by around 20 per cent by 2011. They are urged to reassess their priorities ...

Following publication of a report on wellbeing in the NHS, the Charted Institute of Personnel and Development has called on all public sector employers to find out how much working time is lost to ...

The government’s flagship welfare reform, Universal Credit, which has encountered leadership and technical problems, is now recovering some of the time lost in the last 3 years. By Spring 2015 one in ...

Consultations have begun on a revised Local Government Pension Scheme. Employees will be expected to pay bigger contributions as part of a package of reforms designed to ensure there is no added ...

New initiatives have been launched across Government departments to promote the development of social enterprise as a business model which holds social and environmental value as important as ...

The Institute for Public Policy Research North says the Secretary of State, Eric Pickles, is paying lip service to localism which will only be achieved if local councils are raising 50 per cent of ...

Ensuring high quality service levels is at the heart of efficiency whether the organisation makes heavy machinery or collects council tax. The Society of IT Management plans to introduce a service ...

Advocates the adoption of standards in local government public service environments, arguing that with the introduction of compulsory competitive tendering UK councils have become increasingly quality ...