Billions of pounds could be saved if public services were rethought on the basis of themes rather than organisations, according to the findings of a scheme seeking low-pain ways to cut government spending.
We are pleased to announce our full party conference programme, consisting of 7 events. We are having a presence all of 3 major conferences – Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat.
We are pleased to announce our full party conference programme, consisting of 7 events. We are having a presence all of 3 major conferences – Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat.
Local government has surpassed its efficiency savings targets after recording 1.76bn worth of value for money savings for 2008-09, communities secretary John Denham has announced.
Westminster City Council is calling on the government to carry out extensive reform of the rules on social housing. In a letter to housing minister John Healey, the council demands that the local connection rule should be changed to reflect local differences and that local authorities should be allowed to provide a greater range of tenancies.
Westminster City Council will next week begin operating under its new strategic commissioning framework as part of a restructuring programme designed to save £30 million over the next three years.
Communities secretary John Denham has urged councils to join together to bulk buy goods and services in a bid to slash local governments £42bn bill for external contracts.
Value-for-money’ quangos like the Audit Commission and the National Audit Office should be scrapped and replaced by a single body which just measures public service performance, a report says today.
The Liberal Democrat leader of Liverpool City Council has dismissed the North West Development Agency as another ?money-wasting bureaucracy?. Speaking at a fringe meeting at the party’s Bournemouth conference, Warren Bradley backed party plans to axe all regional development agencies to save 2.3 billion a year.
Bromsgrove DC and Redditch BC have agreed to create a shared management team led by Kevin Dicks and move to shared services. This comes a year after Mr Dicks, Bromsgrove’s chief since 2006, also took on the acting chief’s role at Redditch.