Total Place is about mapping public expenditure in a locality and identifying efficiencies through partnership working. Birmingham is a city of a million people and a financial mapping exercise led by ...

The 2016 Annual Fraud Indicator, an industry report produced at the University of Portsmouth, estimated that fraud costs the UK £193 billion every year, with £144 billion attributed to business fraud.

This article was first published in Public Management and Policy and is reproduced by permission of the Association. http://www.cipfa.org.uk/pmpa/index.cfm The party ...

The local delivery of services designed to cut the rate of teenage pregnancies is crucial to their success according to the Minister for Children, Young People and Families, Beverley Hughes, but she ...

Edited by: Derek J. Koehler and Nigel HarveyThe Handbook is a state-of-the art overview of current topics and research in the study of how people make evaluations, draw inferences, and make decisions ...

Ten projects proposed by fifteen councils have been given a share of the 126 million pounds funding from the Local Enterprise Growth Initiative to boost the economies of some of the deprived areas in ...

This report from the Young Foundation and the IDeA highlights that promoting and influencing happiness is no longer just an aspiration. As the recession forces difficult public spending choices, ...

This feature describes how West Devon Borough Council developed barcoded billing for the payment of Council bills and replaced swipecards. The Council worked in partnership with allpay and introduced ...

Councils will struggle to cope with the financial challenge posed by England’s ageing population and may miss opportunities to innovate and save, says a new report from the Audit Commission. Under ...

The government is to use a six year old EU procurement directive to ban companies and individuals involved in failed tax avoidance schemes from securing public contracts. The rules, which will come ...

The performance of single tier and county councils is improving overall, but new figures from the Audit Commission show that many local people still remain to be convinced. For the first time since ...

Following criticism from the Public Accounts Committee that delayed discipline cases cost the NHS 40 million pounds annually, new procedures are to be introduced for doctors and dentists. Currently ...