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• Council set to refresh Joint Venture contract with BT • £9 million discount plus £17.5 million investment in ICT • £18 million for housing, social care and apprenticeship projects Liverpool City Council is set to refresh its Joint Venture contract with BT after securing an improved deal. Liverpool Direct Limited was formed in 2001 [...]
Councils could save £10 billion every year if they improve the way they buy, source and pay for goods and services new research reveals today. New, cutting edge analysis of council spending data by procurement experts Opera Solutions has revealed that greater transparency coupled with improved analysis is the key to unlocking massive savings by [...]
Local authorities are getting to grips with the scale of the efficiency savings they need to make – but 40 per cent do not yet have strategies in place to achieve the spending cuts required according to a recent survey. On average councils are expecting to make cuts of 20 per cent by 2014, with [...]
… and (claims) there’s £3 billion a year more to come. In a move expected to save £3 billion a year, Francis Maude today announced that the Government is making significant changes to the way it buys in categories of common goods and services such as stationery and office services. The move follows Sir Philip [...]
Summary [Download full report below this summary] ‘Improving value for money in adult social care’ is the first in a series of briefings that will look at value for money in health and social care. This briefing finds that, as demographic change and financial pressures combine to create tough times for adult social care, councils [...]
Councils are changing their approach to providing adult social care to make services more efficient, the Audit Commission briefing Improving value for money in adult social care has found. As demographic change and financial pressures combine to create tough times for adult social care, councils have looked at many aspects of the service in order [...]
Local councils were today updated on Government plans to secure a value for money transfer of the Audit Commission’s in-house practice into the private sector, announced Local Government Minister Grant Shapps. In August last year the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government announced plans to disband the Audit Commission and refocus audit on [...]
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