The Audit Commission has published its annual review and says it shows the impact its work is having on public services as well as underlining its continued drive to improve financial management, ...

Fifty years ago I joined the town hall in Morley, Yorkshire as the office boy. I stuck on the stamps for a wage of £13 per month. How did the scene then compare with the present? Then, the age of ...

Domestic Violence Partnerships should be formed to create the space and opportunity for cross-service working. To achieve this, local authorities must encourage and demand input from all relevant ...

New research shows that the scheme under which school children are given free fruit may not bring long-term health benefits. A study published today in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health ...

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 ...

It finds that eighty per cent of people want services to be available electronically and three quarters of them want it to happen in the next five years. The study found most people were tired of ...

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 ...

So does it work? The evidence is mixed. Satisfaction with local government fell in between 1997 and 2003 as this raft of reform was introduced, although on closer examination this fall was not due to ...

The Big Society is set to bring benefits to many communities across the country, but others will lose out. The losers are in the areas with limited community wealth such as volunteering. The New Local ...

With the challenge of finding ways to cut budgets by 25 per cent, a survey has revealed that public services find difficulty in analysing how taxpayers’ money is spent. There is a limited use of ...

Many processes are repeated across groups of similar organizations throughout the public sector, but the one size fits all IT solution has repeatedly failed. Providing seed corn funding from the ...

Housing associations are currently facing real choices about their future. Reduced capital subsidy for housing development, changes to rents and constraints on housing benefit together represent the ...