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It’s time to dispel a few myths around outsourcing

Before councils rush to outsource public services they should ask themselves why those who tried ...

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Making sense of the white paper’s finer details

The white paper contains a number of good ideas on how to bring innovative and ...

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Open door policy

With such examples of clear methods of how plurality of public service can lead to ...

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Public service reform: people power or privatisation?

What’s difficult to appreciate is quite how the programme sketched out in the white paper ...

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There’s a great opportunity to boost the green economy – we can’t bottle it

For those sitting on the outside looking in, a green economy may appear volatile, certainly ...

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Deal breaker

If the green deal is to be a success, investment in energy efficiency must be ...

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European co-ops: A ‘reality check’ for UK public service vision

David Cameron has cited Swedish and Spanish co-operative schools as models for public service mutuals ...

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A new narrative for regeneration?

The title of the document, Regeneration to enable growth: What the government is doing to ...

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A Budget for widening gaps

Matthew Jackson argues the Budget has delivered incentives for local economic development which will only ...

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Making councils a friend of enterprise

Council procurement managers aren’t the enemy of enterprise, Mr Cameron. But with your help they ...