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REPORT Essex Care Tech Campus Assessing the Outcomes from the inaugural Challenge Fund The Care Tech Campus Challenge Fund, launched…
In the teeth of determined civil service opposition, it was brave of the government to commit 750 top posts in…
The administration of the government estate can be traced back in history to the time of the Anglo Saxons. Throughout…
In the teeth of determined civil service opposition, it was brave of the government to commit 750 top posts in…
The Institute has produced a thought-provoking piece as Government prepares for a programme that will see 22,000 civil servants relocated…
The BBC’s news today about the Leeds DWP office failing to enforce social distancing following an Health and Safety Executive…
For Boris Johnson’s shellshocked government, there has been little instructive from the worlds of ed and med in recent weeks.…
Serco was awarded a track and trace contract valued up to £400m, apparently without competition. Actually, there was a competition…
In his March budget the chancellor indicated the government’s intention to move 22,000 civil servants out of London by 2030.…
George Evans-Jones presents a brief overview of the main points coming out of yesterday’s Spending Review
This week Breaking Barriers Innovations hosted the “Pathways, Place and Priorities” Roundtable, discussing the potential impact of digital technology upon…
In light of DragonGate’s recent “Connecting the Regions Through Clean Growth” Roundtable, DragonGate Programme Manager George Evans-Jones answers our questions…
Tim Philpott reflects on how local authority property transformation spending may be missing out on the bigger picture
Simon Lydiard asks how could it all go so wrong for the Department for Transport’s “no deal” ferries contract
DragonGate Associate Steve Atkinson remarks on the “Unravelling Government Estates Strategy” – Local Government Roundtable hosted by Kinnarps 1st February
Simon Lydiard reflects on the outcry over the contract for new, post-Brexit passports being awarded to a company based in…
The demand and financial pressures on the public sector are not going away; but policy activity from central government could…
In his interesting piece in The Times on the 20th January, Matthew Parris uses the recently published ONS figures that…
The collapse of Carillion was an accident waiting to happen. To understand why, just reflect on Theresa May’s claim at…
Ongoing DragonGate research has established that 2018-19 will be a high watermark for Local Government property transformation, with approximately 70…
Lost amid much of the fanfare of the Conservative Manifesto launch were some familiar pledges on Government purchasing relationships with…
Metaphorically putting civil service goldfish into tanks (outside of the London goldfish bowl) would allow a less rounded, more real…
The sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) programme should harness and drive digital innovation as a positive force to help overcome…
There was a time when the intricacies of local government and NHS capital expenditure were delicacies best served up by…
Nothing less than a ‘whole-place’ pooling of public service budgets and devolution of criminal justice system powers to local level…