Tony Travers

Tony Travers

Briefings

All the latest briefings from LGC's panel of experts

Fresh focus for financial management Subscription Required

17 May 2012 | By Frances Foster

The current ‘comfort ‘of resource forecasting will be swept away with obvious impacts for maintaining robust and effective financial management

Matthew Taylor

Austerity a springboard for creativity Subscription Required

17 May 2012 | By Matthew Taylor

The process of decommissioning can be constructive, creative, and - most importantly - result in better outcomes

'Use scorecards to prove your point' Subscription Required

17 May 2012 | By Mark Rogers

Let’s take these scorecards as a learning opportunity – one which further galvanises local government to perfect the art of sector led improvement and, consequently, shows Government that, in future, it does not need to do things this way

Peter Fleming

Blame culture threat to real progress Subscription Required

17 May 2012 | By Peter Fleming

The momentum around sector led improvement is really beginning to gather pace

Mandeep Hothi

Research identifies social media value Subscription Required

17 May 2012 | By Mandeep Hothi

Over the past three years the Young Foundation has been working with several communities to test how social media can empower local people.

Adrian Short

Research identifies social media value Subscription Required

17 May 2012 | By Adrian Short

Open data is all about building more and better apps to deliver digital public services. So what use is open data for people who aren’t online?

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