Total Place

Council cuts: let the people know

18 February 2013 | John Tizard

The public has still not grasped the implications of 25-35% spending cuts for public services. It’s time for councils to open the books and launch local information campaigns that engage local citizens Read more

Tags: | | | | | 1 comment

Fixing the fiscal hole

13 November 2012 | Ben Lucas and Henry Kippin

The government is facing a larger-than-forecast black hole in the public finances. Securing future fiscal sustainability and ongoing economic growth will demand some radical new approaches to policy making and service delivery Read more

Tags: | | | | | Comment

Troubled families in mind

12 June 2012 | John Tizard

The government’s ‘troubled families’ initiative has great potential, but many practical problems must be addressed – not least how we account for the improvements made Read more

Tags: | | | | 1 comment

Making the most of ‘whole place’ Community Budgets

18 October 2011 | John Tizard

The upcoming ‘whole place’ Community Budget pilots need to focus on delivery, not on making a case for change that has already been made Read more

Tags: | | 1 comment

Public services white paper: how open, how radical?

11 July 2011 | Kate Blatchford

The PM’s  launch of the open public services white paper has created a wide range of challenges to the way services are delivered   Read more

Tags: | | | | | 3 comments

A brave approach for Scotland, by Don Peebles

7 April 2011 | Don Peebles

The silence is deafening.  Amidst the gently developing election ‘noise’ in Scotland where party manifestos are now beginning only slowly to emerge, a little known independent inquiry (the Christie Commission) is quietly carrying out its work on the future delivery of public services. Read more...

Tags: | | | | 1 comment

An accounting challenge, by John Tizard

10 January 2011 | John Tizard

The government may have dropped the national drive for ‘Total Place’ but increasingly local authorities and their public sector partners are either adopting or exploring the opportunities for what might be seen as Total Place approaches. Read more...

Tags: | | | 1 comment

Have FDs been found out? By John Tizard

12 December 2010 | John Tizard

The Localis survey of local authority finance directors showed an amazing insight into local authority management if it is accurate.  Can it be accurate? Surely not. Read more...

Tags: | | Comment

D-day for localism, by John Tizard

5 December 2010 | John Tizard

Read more...

Tags: | | | 1 comment

Entente frugal, by Judy Hirst

4 November 2010 | Judy Hirst

Necessity is the mother of invention. So, with revenue funding for local government cut by 26%, all sorts of things that were once unimaginable suddenly look eminently doable. Read more...

Tags: | | | | | | | Comment