Local Government

The pressure to demonstrate added value in public procurement is growing. Steve Malone explains how a new alliance is harnessing the spending power of social landlords

Every year social landlords spend millions on furniture for their properties. The same goes for paint, kitchens, central heating systems, cavity wall insulation, waste management and cleaning services.

Regular readers will know that I have written before on the work we are leading in Salford on complex families, or, as the government now calls them, ‘troubled families’.