Finance

Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee in 1897 coincided with a huge investment in public parks and open spaces to serve and improve Britain’s expanding cities and to create local civic pride. Dozens of town and cities benefited from the creation of their own Victoria Parks, funded through public subscription or private donation.

Flexibility is the key to ensuring public service commissioning has a positive social impact, as Jenni Inglis explains

Localism and deficit reduction are key policies of the coalition government with major implications for all public sector bodies. In the health service, boundaries between public, private and third sector provision are shifting radically.