Features
Busting bureaucracy and procuring with purpose
In the blur that was last week, one tweet stood out and woke me from my ambient daze. Possibly after a night of broken sleep brought about by nightmarish images of Dale Winton loading up trolley loads of computers for government supermarket sweep style (or not), Tom Watson (our man in Parliament as Minister for Transformational Government and keen blogger and member of the Twitterati) appeared to start Thursday with a cheery determination to tackle the area of IT procurement in government.
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FutureGov future events»Having had a relatively quiet time of it recently on the event front (well for me anyway!), I thought it worth a short post to let you all know where I will be over the next 3 weeks as things are getting rather hectic again.
Videos
New public sector agenda - Charlie Leadbeater speaks to Barnet Council»As a quick follow up to my last post on the future of London government, I thought I would share a video made available today by the London Borough of Barnet on YouTube (quite an innovation in itself I say!).
Interviews
Local outlook: what to expect»Over coming months, this section will be dedicated to conversations with leading figures in the public, private and voluntary sectors about the future direction of local government, the demands that are likely to be placed on it in coming years and how it will work with its partners and customers to change the way it works to better meet the needs of the people it serves.
