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Public prefer social enterprises to deliver services, survey finds

'The mood has changed: the public wants a different model of outsourcing that they trust.'

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Indy Johar: reinventing the corner shop

Indy Johar is co-founder of architectural practice 00:/. Through the launch of projects including the ...

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Buying for good

Could collective procurement be the way forward? Jenny Howarth thinks so

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Seeding and scaling

Procurement as a tool for achieving the best public policy outcomes founded on an understanding ...

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Maximising the impact of commissioning

Flexibility is the key to ensuring public service commissioning has a positive social impact, as ...

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Payment by results: ends, means and need

The government’s wide-ranging ambitions for introducing payment by results (PbR) regimes across a swathe of ...

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Social value bill is a breakthrough we must not waste

The Social Value Act presents a great chance for social, economic and environmental concerns to ...

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Using procurement to deliver social outcomes

The pressure to demonstrate added value in public procurement is growing. Steve Malone explains how ...

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Good with local services?

With public services being increasingly marketised, a group of local authorities is looking to the ...

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Highly commended

Each year staff at the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) nominate projects and initiatives ...