Councils click into the future of planning
In town halls across the country, planning officers are racing to update their Local Plans — but this time, the process looks very different.
Public audit will soon need a spring clean
21/02/2019 John Tizard and David Walker make the case for a new way of auditing how public money is spent that uses evidence before spending decisions are made. |
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Challenging the value of traditional outsourcing
20/08/2013 Some recent headlines may cause public sector leaders to pause before rushing headlong into further outsourcing adventures. |
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Sharing capacity not services
18/02/2013 John Tizard argues that local authorities must explore how they can share services, equipment, people and expertise without entering into the expensive and lengthy traditional ‘shared services’ arrangements. |
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In praise of councillors
21/06/2011 It is time to celebrate the work of our only elected and democratically accountable, local community leaders, says John Tizard. |
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Time to take Goliath head on
20/05/2011 Councils need a strong voice through the LGA willing to challenge the Government, says John Tizard |
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Don’t break the link
06/04/2011 Plans to scrap PCTs and bring in GP commissioning consortia could jeopardise links between health and local government if the Government persists with the Bill, warns John Tizard |
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Pluralism, not privatisation, is the route to better public services
03/03/2011 The prime minister’s apparent calls for more privatisation last week risk a return to CCT, and could merely replace a public sector monopoly with a private sector one, says John Tizard |
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Where’s a will, there’s a way to sharing
27/01/2011 To decide to share chief executives and wider management teams as part of cost-cutting requires hard political decisions, says John Tizard. |
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Back to the future
05/08/2010 Bringing back Victorian municipal entrepreneurship could provide a solution to our present crisis, says John Tizard. |
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Efficiency savings are not going to be enough
23/04/2010 Forget the 1980s, this public sector recession will be far worse, and public sector leaders will need to lead from the front, says John Tizard. |
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This is no time to abandon social goals
03/03/2010 There is no reason why a local authority’s socio-economic goals should be abandoned when its services are outsourced or secured through partnership,says John Tizard. |
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There are more ways to tango
02/12/2009 More outsourcing is not always the right answer to public spending pressures, says John Tizard |
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The time has come for council leaders to seize the moment
01/07/2009 Bold political leadership is essential if councils are to make the difficult decisions needed to get through the next few years, says John Tizard. |
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The time has come for council leaders to seize the moment
26/06/2009 Bold political leadership is essential if councils are to make the difficult decisions needed to get through the next few years, says John Tizard. |
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How partnerships should
03/12/2008 The recession will create new pressures to deliver services through public-public and public-private partnerships, and gain from their economies of scale. John Tizard offers some advice for local authorities and agencies on how partnerships can help |
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The proof must be in the pudding
10/09/2008 More research is needed to ensure the use of private and third sector suppliers for public services delivers the desired results, says John Tizard. |
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The politics of partnership
25/07/2008 Delivering services in local government has moved on dramatically in the past decade. John Tizard looks at the political difficulties of services supplied across different public and private sector agencies |
