Graham Atkins
Associate Director
All work
The Government must not continue delaying the social care green paper
The fifth delay to the publication of the social care green paper is a cause for concern.
Emergency police funding continues a sticking plaster approach to public services
The latest emergency funding for knife crime continues the Government’s crisis-cash-repeat approach to public services.
The Government does not understand why demand for children’s social care is rising
The DfE will not be able to help children in need if it fails to understand the reasons why demand for children’s social care is rising.
Performance Tracker 2018
Government is quietly shifting costs of public services on to individuals.
Let us hope these emergency cash injections for social care are coming to an end
Councils need confidence about future funding to invest prudently, but cash injections are stop-gap solutions.
Government will spend over £10bn on private finance deals this year but can’t tell you if they’re worth it
Any new government review of private finance must build a better picture of whether it is good value.
Five questions new councillors must ask
Newly-elected councillors inherit a challenging mix of rising demands and smaller budgets.
How to transform infrastructure decision making in the UK
How competing needs and perspectives can be balanced to improve three vital aspects of infrastructure policy: time, quality and cost.
Carillion collapse shows weakness of public vs private finance debate
Government must build the evidence to understand when private finance provides better value for money than public spending.
How to get better private finance deals for infrastructure
Ministers are hampering progress towards their own objective of increasing private investment in UK infrastructure at a good price.