Public Sector Focus

Generating growth with the Grimsby town deal

22.08.19: Something is stirring in the north of England. Philip Jackson, leader of North East Lincolnshire Council, explains what’s occurring and how it’s caught the eye of Government and the private sector. Around 8,800 new jobs and 10,0...

Building Bolton’s NHS workforce

20.08.19: Mark O’Reilly, project director at Bolton College of Medical Sciences (BCMS), discusses how the local partnership is setting out to train the next generation with the use of a new £30m vocational training centre. A recent report...

Growing in confidence: Meeting the targets of Apprenticeship Levy

15.08.19: Debbie Rayfield, corporate apprenticeship manager at Sefton Council, discusses her role within the council’s Apprenticeship Team and the challenges that can be faced meeting the targets of the Apprenticeship Levy. I initially joined t...

TechnologyOne: Setting the foundation for shared service success

14.08.19: Anwen Robinson, UK Operating Officer at TechnologyOne - an enterprise SaaS company - explains why adopting an enterprise vision is key to long-term benefit Local government transformation is primarily driven by the need to find ef...

Unlocking the door for customers and suppliers

13.08.19: Simon Tse, chief executive of the Crown Commercial Service, discusses how the biggest public procurement organisation in the UK is changing. For some time the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), the trading fund of the Cabinet Office, rightly f...

TechnologyOne: The shared services boom

06.08.19: Is austerity really over? Even if it is, that doesn’t mark the end of shared services for local government. Anwen Robinson, UK Operating Officer at TechnologyOne explains. In the 2018 Autumn statement, chancellor Philip Hamm...

East Sussex GVA up by 23% in seven years

01.08.19: INVESTMENT in East Sussex has been credited for the creation of more than 2,000 jobs in the last five years. East Sussex County Council worked with partners to secure more than £600 million in capital investment since launching a...

£25m Flood Risk Management Scheme for Carlisle is underway

31.07.19: The Environment Agency is starting work on a new £25 million flood risk management scheme which will help protect more than 1,600 homes and businesses in Cumbria. Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, has of...

Celebrating a decade of local government shared service success

29.07.19: Anwen Robinson, UK operating officer at TechnologyOne celebrates a decade of shared service agreements and the savings they have brought to UK local government. Over £1.34 billion in cumulative efficiency savings has been ma...

Yorkshire, Devon and Cornwall get £3m funding for flood measures

23.07.19: Communities across Yorkshire, Devon and Cornwall and central England are to be protected against the impact of flooding after almost £3 million of government investment. Following a competitive evaluation process, three projects have...

AI technology fund of £2 million announced to identify UK potholes

22.07.19: Innovative artificial intelligence (AI) technology will be used to help improve the condition of local roads, following the announcement of DfT funding announced totalling £2 million to develop the most thorough understanding ever of Brita...

Ministers back new Oxford-Cambridge Arc economic proposals

19.07.19: Housing Minister Kit Malthouse has vowed to support a new economic plan to boost innovation and maximise opportunities in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. The locally-developed plan sets out how the area will take full advantage of its...

Six years on: Taking stock of G-Cloud 11

09.07.19: Rafael Cortes, head of marketing at Foehn, reviews the success of G-Cloud and what the most recent iteration offers the future. Even the best of relationships can go through a ‘six-year patch’. Not so at Foehn. To the contrary...

County Councils Network announces new chairman

05.07.19: The County Councils Network (CCN) has announced today that councillor David Williams has been elected leader of the Conservative group for the network, and will now be chairman elect for the organisation. This follows a leadership contest b...

Five ways the UK Shared Prosperity Fund can rebalance the economy

01.07.19: Executive director of the Institute of Economic Development, Nigel Wilcock, argues that the UK Shared Prosperity Fund should address imbalances in localities that affect prosperity. Whilst government may have missed its latest deadline for...