A national crackdown on tenancy cheats has been launched with the aim of recovering up to 10,000 council and housing association homes which have been sublet fraudulently. As a first step the Housing ...

Managing supplies to hospital departments manually and re-ordering on the basis of historic information is inefficient in both supply costs and staff time. Alan Hoskins describes how introducing ...

The Chief Executive of Westminster City Council, Peter Rogers, has been appointed to lead the review of areas of the law that are enforced by local authorities. His independent review will look at ...

The National Health Service is being warned today to be cautious in introducing new ‘case management’ initiatives in helping older people with long-term health conditions stay out of hospital. The ...

Adult social care services in England are continuing to improve but both local authorities and the sector’s watchdog are warning that financial pressures mean some people do not have access to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new e-learning scheme has been unveiled to help trustees of voluntary sector organisations to improve their skills. ‘Learning To Drive’ has been produced by the Governance Hub in partnership with ...

A leading council chief executive has been appointed a trouble-shooter to help local councils pull back from the brink of failure.Ted Cantle, who has been chief executive of Nottingham City Council ...

There is a growing number of diverse groups of older people with high support needs. Improvements in life expectancy mean that people aged 85 and over are the fastest growing age group in the ...

Great care must be taken on behalf of those who have challenges in reaching a functioning level within universal credit. Unnecessary and unmanageable debt would severely undermine the important ...

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 ...