By Bill McIntyre
The spending review to be published in October 2010, will probably reveal that the cuts in public service budgets are the most severe in living memory. In the private sector many businesses have been through this experience much more recently. The author describes how some businesses cut budgets in a controlled and more [...]

The Commissioning Support Programme offers a new approach to efficiency savings. A new Outcomes and Efficiency programme will support local authorities as they make significant cuts in their budgets for services to children and young people. The Programme provides free access to materials applicable across all services to children, young people and their families for [...]

By Charlene Li
This is an essential guide for leaders who want to use social media to be “open” while maintaining control
“Be Open, Be Transparent, Be Authentic” are the current leadership mantras-but organizations often push back. Management is premised on the concept of control and yet the new world order demands openness. Leaders do not know [...]

By Keith Grint
This final report on Total Place ‘Problem, purpose, power, knowledge, time and space’ commissioned by Local Government Leadership (formerly the Leadership Centre for Local Government) draws out lessons from the thirteen pilot projects.
The report suggests that mapping local expenditure is relatively simple and very enlightening. It reveals that very large sums of public [...]