When state-funded public services were opened up to private sector competition in the 1990s with the introduction of Public Sector Mutuals, many wondered whether this would herald the death knell for the ‘traditional’ government-funded workforce that had held its monopoly…

Since The Localism Act was introduced at the end of 2011, bringing both new freedoms for local government and new rights and powers for individuals and communities, there has been a move by internal staff teams to express an interest…