Localis Chief Executive, Alex Thomson, reflects on what the council of 2020 might look like and what the challenges over the next decade might be.
Public servants who form ‘John Lewis’ style mutuals to deliver key services need better access to external finance, a government-backed report has concluded.
Localis chief executive, Alex Thomson, appeared on the BBC World Tonight programme this evening, making the case for localism and neighbourhood planning.
The mood at the LGA conference seemed to me to be reasonably upbeat ? which is perhaps surprising, given that the sector has been clobbered again by the Treasury.
Local authorities and local enterprise partnerships are among the dozens of bodies which have been awarded part of a £506m regional growth fund award.
The governments review of financial Whitehall management will examine the possible integration of functions across departments, the Treasurys director general of public spending has revealed.
Localis’ Alex Thomson comments on the announcement of an extra 4.3m in funding for the community budgets programme.
The number of local authorities adopting different processes for tenders below EU thresholds has increased from 74% to 83% this year.
Localis’ research on commissioning gets a mention in Carl Packman’s latest Left Foot Forward blog on accessing social care.
The Treasury is to increase its scrutiny of a host of public and private sector infrastructure projects to help get the schemes under way.