The new coalition government this week pushed forward with its ‘Big Society’ approach to reforming public services, but critics claim the ideas are a smokescreen for cuts. On May 18, the prime minister and deputy prime minister met community leaders in Downing Street to launch policies giving citizens more powers and enabling voluntary groups to […]
Massively reducing the size of the public sector in the face of the nation’s economic challenges does not have to spell doom for services orsociety, according to a new collection of work commissioned by thinktank Localis.
The Guardian has made Small State, Big Society one of their Editor’s picks on their Guardian Public website.
Localis said there was a major opportunity for the new coalition government to tackle the fiscal deficit and underperforming public services. Dr Anthony Seldon, said: ‘The move towards the reinvigoration of the local community is unstoppable
Chief executives are hired because they are exceptional people who can handle the pressures of the top job. But in the wake of the recession and the Total Place ‘whole area approach’, the spotlight is on their ability to work in company with other leaders across their patch.
James Morris is to stand down as Chief Executive of Localis following his election to the House of Commons as MP for Halesowen and Rowley Regis. A process to find a replacement has already begun and in the meantime business will continue as usual.
James Morris is to stand down as Chief Executive of Localis following his election to the House of Commons as MP for Halesowen and Rowley Regis. A process to find a replacement has already begun and in the meantime business will continue as usual.
As Nick Clegg decides who to pursue a political relationship with in the battle for Number 10, some are asking whether the Lib Dems and the Tories could ever work well together in a co-operative government.
Councils and their partners will have to take a small scale, practical, bottom up approach to renewal in deprived areas in anticipation of cuts to regeneration funding and severe public spending restraint, a thinktank has said.
Cuts to regeneration spending will have dire consequences on deprived areas and could prove a false economy by threatening the pace of overall economic recovery, the organisation for UK economic development practioners has warned.