Ministers are examining the scope to enable mutuals to run services in social care, housing and children’s centres, Cabinet Office minister Tessa Jowell has revealed
Mark Wallace of the Taxpayers Alliance judges the new CAA ratings and its Oneplace website to have failed in holding Town Halls to account.The CAA replaces the old star rating system for councils
Hospitals and schools would be transformed into John Lewis-style partnerships under radical plans that could form a central plank of Labour’s general election manifesto
The comprehensive area assessment (CAA) system is unhelpfully judgmental and manifestly unfair, according to a report based on interviews with ‘systems thinking leaders’ at 10 councils.
The Audit Commission is battling to sell the Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) to a potential Conservative government after two flagship Tory boroughs revealed that they were ?quitting? the ?costly and ineffective? assessment.
In our recently launched report The Bottom Line KPMG – together with the Think Tank Localis discuss 5 actions for local government that are essential for success in the current and emerging situation” writes Iain Hasdell
Two high performing, low tax, councils have slammed the Audit Commission’s new assessment regime, which they say has proved costly and ineffective.
Though the pre-budget report looms, the Total Place pilots are far more focused on what happens next year, with much of the groundwork already taking place
A network has been created to connect the growing number of co-operative school trusts in England. There are now 26 co-operative schools running in 15 trusts – with a further 120 schools in the pipeline.
Essex County Council has rubber stamped an eight-year contract for IBM to take on a range of its services. The announcement follows speculation that Essex had scaled back their ambitions for the closely watched tie-up, which was advertised as a contract worth up to 5.4bn.