Islington and Camden LBCs are set to become the first upper-tier councils to share a chief executive.
Value for money checks on local councils and other public bodies will be overseen by the National Audit Office, Eric Pickles has confirmed.
A comprehensive listing of all of Localis’ Party conference events for 2010
Localis have featured in a Conservative Home article listing the policies that Localis have developed and which have subsequently implemented by the coalition government
The Department for Communities & Local Government has published a list of every item of expenditure above 500 made in the past year.
A dozen pathfinder mutuals in which entrepreneurial public sector staff take control of local services have been announced by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude.
The Place Survey is to be scrapped as ministers make a further bid to ?release councils from Whitehall control?, local government minister Grant Shapps has announced.
The Prime Minister said the Government may introduce fixed period tenancies to ensure new social housing tenants can be evicted if their circumstances improve.
Greater direct accountability and community involvement is key to providing services that are efficient and focused on the needs and priorities of service users. But there are challenges with this approach too.
Every British citizen relies on his or her local authority to provide services in the most economic, efficient and effective way possible. Given the complexity and diversity of the services they supply, this is always challenging, but with the £6bn of public spending cuts announced in May, it has probably never been more so.