Editor's Comment

What you see - what you get?

01.02.13: Our focus on the public realm, urban design and communal space in this edition of PSE is a good reminder that for all the work done in boardrooms and back offices across the public sector, it is what people actually see that has the biggest infl...

Facing the future

01.12.12: Throughout this entire edition of Public Sector Executive, you’ll find examples of organisations transforming the way they work to try to maintain and improve services while dealing with the realities of frozen and shrinking budgets. In so...

An unaffordable crisis

01.10.12: The Government desperately wants a boom in housebuilding. The current mismatch between supply and demand, made more complex because of a shortage of affordable mortgages, drives a number of other societal and financial problems, not least the st...

Doom and gloom?

01.08.12: If local authorities were dealing just with year-on-year cuts to their income, then service transformation, efficiency and job cuts might just about bridge the gap. But the fact is, demands for some of the most complex and expensive service...

Change available

01.06.12: The recent Socitm spring conference heard many an impassioned plea for a shift from cost-centred efficiency savings to a real transformation in service delivery, with strategic input – unsurprisingly perhaps – from CIOs and IT profes...

Growing pains

01.04.12: Arguments about the effects of austerity on growth are everywhere, and are the key dividing line in politics at the moment. But the problem is that there are good, common sense arguments, and economists’ technical ones, in favour of b...

Damping problem

01.02.12: We’re entering budget setting season again for local authorities – the second since the bombshells contained in the 2010 Emergency Budget, the in-year cuts, the Comprehensive Spending Review and subsequent grant settlements. Cou...