Photos were taken during two of our events in the political party conference season. Both events were held in conjunction with CLES and focussed on how the economic resiliance of local areas can be enhanced.
Councils are advised to reassess their priorities against cost and innovate if they are to achieve much needed expenditure reductions of around 20% by 2011, according to a new report from KPMG and think tank Localis. Entitled The Bottom Line a vision for local government, it suggests that many services, such as libraries and swimming pools, are costly and could be run more effectively by the private and third sectors.
A sweeping programme of self-imposed cuts, reforms and contracting out of services by Scottish councils is recommended in a report by KPMG and Localis.
Councils – rather than Whitehall – should commission new partnerships, argues a new report. These should focus on mutual interests along with pre-determined meaningful outcomes – which can be achieved through the use of fluid budgets.
Shadow communities secretary Caroline Spelman has raised fundamental questions over the future of local area agreements (LAAs), after stating they ?will probably be eclipsed? by the Total Place programme.
Councils should set self-imposed targets to reduce expenditure by around 20 per cent by 2011, a report from Localis and KPMG recommends. Local authorities must reassess their priorities against cost and innovate if they are to achieve the expenditure reductions demanded by 2011.
A new report this week from think-tank Localis and KPMG says local government needs to reconsider what services it intends to carry on delivering to accommodate spending cuts of 20% over the next two years. James Morris outlines its conclusions.
The BBC’s Giles Dilnot talks to the leader of Barnet Council, Mike Freer, about a ‘no frills’ model of council services where the council provides every local resident a core set of services but where residents get a discount for not using certain services or pay extra for additional services.
The main problem with the current system is that community services do not touch most of the elderly until they see a GP or are admitted to hospital with a serious illness
Council tax bills in England could rise by an average of 1.6% next year – the lowest increase for more than a decade, according to a survey. The Local Government Chronicle magazine asked councils what they were planning, although budgets have yet to be set.