The savage budget cuts make it imperative to look at the track record of monumental failures for government IT projects. The author examines where projects are going wrong. He also looks at what ...

A sentiment analysis has been applied to tweets about the Wimbledon Championship to reveal a range of insights into fan and sport pundits’ opinions around the games. The same analysis technique could ...

Local authorities, bus operators, transport campaigners and unions are warning today that Britain’s local bus networks are at risk from Beeching-style cuts if the Government withdraws direct national ...

A think tank is predicting that councils could face central government funding cuts of at least a third. Research from the New Local Government Network suggests authorities could lose more than 12 ...

What’s the issue? Around a million older home-owners have at least £100,000 of housing equity, yet their incomes are so small that they qualify for means-tested benefits1. If these people could draw ...

This programme is now available to view on localgov.tv the online television channel for public service modernisation. It examines the way mobile computing is increasing the productivity of community ...

The Cabinet Office has signed up 100,000 Big Society ‘Digital Champions’ to help millions of adults get online by the time the Olympics comes to Britain. The champions are employees and users of ...

The Parliamentary Work and Pensions Committee has highlighted the lack of an IT system to make automatic cross checks of housing data to prevent fraudulent claims for Universal Credit. Housing benefit ...

This programme is now available to view on localgov.tv the online television channel for public service modernisation. Local authorities need to educate their citizens to protect themselves against ...

Stephen Clark discusses how virtual school heads can more accurately monitor looked-after children. A recent freedom of information request from the Sunday Times shows that 4,852 looked-after children ...

Projects to trial local support services in supporting claimants who have difficulty in coping with the all computerised Universal Credit benefits system are to be set up in six areas.

Senior academics are warning today that some new approaches to tackling crime are leading to people who are most vulnerable in the current economic climate being tightly controlled. In the latest ...