It has been recommended that councils cull spending by 20% by 2011 through doing less, outsourcing more and becoming more financially innovative
If you are a Council tenant and win the Lottery, what happens? Regeneration expert John Moss says a return to meaningful incentives to buy could generate £75 billion to spend on new housing.
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.
Labour railroaded the closure of 2,500 Post Offices with ‘sham’ consultations and ‘a real lack of concern’ for the impact on people’s lives, a damning report from MPs will say today.
Concern is growing that councillors are failing to engage fully in the Total Place programme, leading to a lack of democratic input into the public spending debate.
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 – 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.
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.
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.
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.