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Mary Clarke, CEO, Cognisco, on tackling poor performance and improving efficiency in local government.

The Scottish Borders Education Partnership (SBEP) is bringing the latest innovations in school design to the Borders region through its collaborative approach to the renewal of the area’s educational facilities.

Developing and delivering a vision for transformational educational change carries with it an imperative to measure the ‘success’ of changed practices in transforming outcomes over time.

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G4S Integrated Services, a part of the G4S plc global group of companies, has recently taken its first steps into Building Schools for the Future (BSF) with the contract to provide facilities management (FM) services to schools in the City of Leicester.

Tim Byles, Chief Executive of Partnerships for Schools, looks back on a hectic year.

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Healthy Schools celebrates its tenth anniversary with results on the ground in Rochdale.

In the five years that Building Schools for the Future (BSF) has been running, schools have undergone a technological and environmental transformation. Laura Pauley looks at the effect the program has had on Lambeth.

New software deal for education promises to extend impressive savings record.

OGCbuying.solutions' new mobile services arrangements deliver best value for local authority buyers.

Anew range of best value mobile voice and data services will be available to local authority buyers from January 2009 in an arrangement worth an estimated £170 million a year across the whole of the public sector.

Stock transfer has transformed the management of hundreds of troubled neighbourhoods and raised £14bn of extra money for regeneration. Sally Bridgen, National Housing Federation's Northwest regional manager, mark's the policy's 20th anniversary.

Creating decent homes is not simply a matter of bricks and mortar. Central to Homes for Haringey's approach is the people it serves and their input is seen as crucial to the success of the Decent Homes Programme.

2009 will see record investment in social housing in Wales. Keith Edwards of CIH Cymru explains why, and what it means for housing and regeneration.

Allen Hickling, director of regeneration at Keepmoat, discusses the ongoing challenges faced by the social housing sector.

RCT Homes - Wales's first housing community mutual - has found itself thrust into the spotlight as an exemplar for community regeneration.

The cloud overshadowing both the banking and housing industries has lifted in the East Midlands where a social housing provider has secured loans worth almost £70million.