• Cockell: community budgets ‘the only way to provide services’

    Cockell: community budgets ‘the only way to provide services’

    The government has no alternative but to roll out its Whole Place Community Budgets (WPCB) programme – a more area-based approach to public service delivery – the chairman of the...

     
  • Home Office complaints up; HMRC’s static

    Home Office complaints up; HMRC’s static

    The number of complaints received by the parliamentary ombudsman about the Home Office (HO) increased by 84 per cent between 2011 and 2012, from 771 to 1,417. But HMRC, another...

     
  • An engine for economic growth

    An engine for economic growth

    Aeronautics are a good example of a new form of partnership between government and industry. Suzannah Brecknell looks at the levers which can enable Whitehall and business to effectively work...

     
 

 
 
 

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  • How to scupper a good idea

    How to scupper a good idea

    Just follow the patented Department of Health HR manual Bob Kerslake would make a better head of the civil service if, rather than working his...

     
 
 

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  • Interview: Catherine Brown

    Interview: Catherine Brown

    The new chief executive of the Food Standards Agency, Catherine Brown, tells Joshua Chambers about the pressure her organisation faced when,...

     
 
 

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  • Frontline: Residential support officer

    Frontline: Residential support officer

    A university welfare officer warns that privatisation is weakening the support for students, whilst fees narrow the student group “I am directly...

     
 
 

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  • Café Review: Blanche Eatery

    Café Review: Blanche Eatery

    Just along from the Houses of Parliament there used to stand an old slum, described in The Times as “a reproach to Westminster”.  Then...

     
 
 

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