The savage budget cuts make it imperative to look at the track record of monumental failures for government IT projects. The author examines where projects are going wrong. He also looks at what ...

Facing The Fold is a collection of highly regarded journal essays about how scenario thinking uses the capacious space of the ‘fold’ to encourage thinking around alternative scenarios – to create the ...

As the number of younger workers declines in the next ten years, older workers will take their place. To help this transition the Government has appointed a Business Champion for Older Workers.

Local authorities, bus operators, transport campaigners and unions are warning today that Britain’s local bus networks are at risk from Beeching-style cuts if the Government withdraws direct national ...

A council has spelt out what it believes will be the full cost to its local economy of the Government’s decision to stop the national Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. Nottingham City ...

The Cabinet Office has signed up 100,000 Big Society ‘Digital Champions’ to help millions of adults get online by the time the Olympics comes to Britain. The champions are employees and users of ...

The Big Society is set to bring benefits to many communities across the country, but others will lose out. The losers are in the areas with limited community wealth such as volunteering. The New Local ...

Delivery of Universal Credit, which brings radical change to the UK benefits system, is being strengthened with leadership changes and a more focused implementation programme.

Projects to trial local support services in supporting claimants who have difficulty in coping with the all computerised Universal Credit benefits system are to be set up in six areas.

A Government supported “use now, pay later” scheme for childcare should be introduced to extend the benefits to a wider range of parents. This call comes from the Social Market Foundation thinktank ...

When the waters of deficit reduction have subsided the total place legacy will be there to help in the process of rebuilding public services. The brand will disappear, but the principles will be ...

The wide variety of business continuity checks that a HMRC audit covers has helped highlight the importance of utilising digital tools, such as vehicle tracking, in order to properly validate that the ...