This week, the Localis think-tank launched Bold steps for radical reform, a robust attack on quangocracy by Kent County Council leader Paul Carter. Shadow local government minister Bob Neill ‘strongly endorsed’ the report’s thinking, which is being discussed at shadow Cabinet level
Windsor and Maidenhead council will announce today a four cut per cent in the charge from April.The Local Government Association said that Windsor and Maidenhead’s tax cut was the biggest ever.
The shadow local government minister has ‘strongly endorsed the thoughts behind’ a report calling for the abolition of major quangos and the radical devolution of responsibilities to local government.
Web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee has unveiled his latest venture for the UK government, which offers the public better access to official data. A new website, data.gov.uk, will offer reams of public sector data.
Councils need to simplify and standardise their underlying processes before they are consolidated into a single shared service, according to a new report
Shadow local government minister Bob Neill said it was a ?timely document that flags up a lot of things that a Conservative government needs to address? but stopped short of a making concrete any pledges.
Localis was cited in the new report, ‘Bold Steps for Radical Reform, from Kent County Council. The report, launched on 19th January shows how substantial savings of public money can be delivered
Ipsos MORI’s latest report, entitled Mind the Gap: Frontiers of Performance V, has taken a whole range of different factors that impact on what people think about councils and looked at the Place Surveys that all English Councils undertook in 2008.
Marginalised for years by home ownership and social landlords, co-op housing’s advocates believe its time has come as the main political parties see its potential to promote community responsibility
Cllr David Parsons, the Leader of Leicestershire County Council, explains how residents were involved in helping to make some tough choices on their budget