Community budgets that pool funding for services could dramatically improve mental health provision. This ‘whole place’ approach should be backed in the Spending review Read more
The Care Bill is a good start when it comes to reforming long-term care funding. But joining up health and social care budgets is the next vital step Read more
The Social Value Act could have a huge impact on community wellbeing – but only with genuine local involvement and an imaginative and unfettered approach Read more
Good commissioning can transform public services, create savings and develop sustainable and more local provision. So how can organisations make this happen? Read more
Politicians and the press are complicit in providing simplistic solutions to complex problems. The public sector should offer an alternative approach by shutting down PR departments, eschewing spin-friendly press releases and, instead, telling the unvarnished truth Read more
Innovation by frontline staff can do a lot to offset the impact of budgetary cuts. A new generation of local authority ’intrapreneurs’ is showing the way Read more
It’s good news that growth has returned to the public sector consultancy market. Outside advice can be vital to public bodies as they try to make savings while improving services Read more
Community co-production might seem like a touchy-feely 1970s concept – but in austerity Britain parts of the public sector are making it work Read more
The London Finance Commission’s recommendations are a sensible blueprint for local government finance in the capital and beyond. They could help stoke a formidable movement for change Read more
Integrating health and social care has long been a goal of governments. But the latest proposals are unlikely to go far enough and more radical measures may be needed Read more
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