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Local Authorities use them. Some NHS Trusts use them; Police have them and umpteen other public bodies have found them useful from time to time. In the private sector, electronic […]

By our calculations, the Central Government has launched 80 consultations in its five months of office. These are in addition to its high-profile request for ideas on the deficit-reduction. Given

he Chancellor didn’t have many surprises. Almost all the key messages of the Spending Review had been well and truly leaked and most public agencies watching his speech did so,

Just when you thought that life was becoming simpler, and the Coalition’s great experiment in localism was about to begin, twenty-four new organisations appear – and they will probably consult

Someone attending an Institute training course recently became very depressed. What’s the use, she said, of learning how to do things properly when all my budget has been removed and

Donald Rumsfeld was ridiculed for using this expression, but it is a useful way to look at the state of uncertainty affecting so many public bodies right now. The Coalition

Eyebrows were raised in Northern Ireland recently when the Minister for Education extended the closing date of a significant consultation on her strategy for early years services for children. So,

Mr Justice Calvert-Smith may not exactly be a household name, but this old Etonian, ex-Director of Public Prosecutions, may well be cheered to the rafters for a couple of judgments

Whether or not one believed them, the 2010 Election may be remembered as the one where every Party in some way or another promised to defend the ‘front-line’ from the

A few weeks ago the National Housing Federation complained that there was a danger that aspects of the new Government’s planning policies risked becoming a ‘NIMBY’s charter’. Then, last week,