An independent review of capital spending on schools in England has given a damning verdict of the current system, claiming savings of almost a third could be achieved under a new model.
With almost 2 million English households in housing need, what direction of travel should the coalition take to help close the gap? A range of government policies seem to be flying in the face of the...
Social housing landlords will be required to set out how they will protect vulnerable residents in the forthcoming shake-up of social housing, which will end tenancies for life and introduce market-...
Councils could save billions of pounds a year by selling off property they own or rent and sharing buildings with other organisations, according to a report published today.
Could housing associations do more to boost efficiency in the age of austerity? Waqar Ahmed thinks so. But the group finance director at L&Q tells PF that the government must do its bit too
Bureaucracy in the planning system is to be dramatically cut back and replaced with a new set of rules designed to stimulate growth and hand more power to ‘communities’, the government has announced.
Chancellor George Osborne has come under pressure to reveal how much money the government hopes to generate through asset sales during the Comprehensive Spending Review period
Social housing provider Lovell has paid £28m to acquire the majority of Connaught Partnerships' social housing contracts and assets, it was announced today
Local government minister Bob Neill has claimed there is not ‘a shred of evidence’ that this week’s collapse of social housing maintenance firm Connaught was linked to the scale and pace of...
There's no getting away from it - public bodies are going to have to find more savings. But there are ways of making this less painful, particularly for those that start now. Mike Turley explains
The recession presents a threat to the public sector - but it also offers managers an opportunity to innovate in ways they could not during the boom years.
The public sector faces a £47bn spending squeeze from 2011, along with slashed capital allocations and a renewed efficiency drive as a result of this year’s Budget, experts have warned.
