Luke Blair: Handling work-life balance amid the penny-pinching
26 Apr 2012 | by Luke Blair
in the public sector. Being urged to deliver 'more for less' creates a strain on public finances, on timescales
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There are many pressures driving this not least finances, but it presents a clear opportunity to innovate. To do it successfully communications needs to be at the heart of this process. The challenge is to connect with citizens by engaging and involving them in the design and delivery of key public services ...
in the public sector. Being urged to deliver 'more for less' creates a strain on public finances, on timescales
complexities of local government finance to ordinary people? How do we make sure that the facts don t get lost ... choices. Councils must start to lead the debate on financing local public services by talking ...
of finance and to be driven by the motive of profit. Such an arrangement creates a problem for anyone ... of bean counters, who might understand finance but have no understanding of the rough and tumble world ...
council tax by 2.4%. Clearly local public finance is proving to be an intractable issue for some councils ...
finances. Even the conservative British media are sensing the public mood and favouring stories about ...
responsible for the position of the public finances than the current one. The message that politicians of all ...
selfish model. They sought to discredit the view that 'finance is the only thing that matters ... that sustainability, not finance, has to become the core purpose of the organisation. A glittering career awaits the comms guru who understands how to frame this message so that our 40-year obsession with finance comes ...
, they are taking a similar gamble with public finances, ignoring the alarm bells and hoping for the best. This week ...
If I start this column with the words 'local government finance' in the first paragraph, I realise...And who could blame you. Local government finance, like income tax and mortgages, has that fantastically irritating combination of being very very dull, very very complicated, and yet is something that ... government finance interesting. And I bet you never thought you would read that in a PR Week column. Luke ...