Features
Education Secretary Michael Gove has promised to replace the school building programme. What will the future look like, asks Paul Jarvis. Read more...
Andrew Lansley’s plan to allow GPs to commission their own healthcare facilities has got the private sector’s attention. Lift companies, in particular, are set to swoop. Colin Leopold reports. Read more...
The government believes economic infrastructure could lead the UK’s recovery. Birmingham’s massive road maintenance project might point the way, says Paul Jarvis Read more...
10 July 2010 - Getting in on the development action
Our new joint venture makes sure the public profits from the regeneration of our borough, says Jon Rouse, chief executive, Croydon. Read more...
10 July 2010 - The dumping of waste PFI
K&L Gates' partner John Chandler says that merchant operators will fill the gap, if the public sector can't get up to speed. Read more...
10 July 2010 - WHAT A WASTE
Nord LB director Theo Collins tells why waste plants can't keep being built the old way and how everyone must help to find a new path. Read more...
Everyone thinks a green investment bank is a great idea – but no-one knows how it will work. Grant-giver, bank lender, start-up investor...will it be all or none of these things? Questions abound for a body on which many hopes are pinned. Read more...
Local housing companies were meant to get private money pouring into social house building. But they’ve yet to build anything. Why? Paul Jarvis reports. Read more...
Privatising British roads could raise £100bn and launch a new wave of private transport investment. But a privatisation plan would be hugely complex - and charging to pay for it politically poisonous. Will it really happen? By Max Rashbrooke. Read more...
Donations from Partnerships Bulletin readers are supporting a project that keeps young East Londoners off the streets - and gets them helping their community. By Max Rashbrooke. Read more...
British companies can help spread the PPP gospel in Eastern Europe – and elsewhere, says Nick Anstree, Lord Mayor of London Read more...
Everything public bodies need to think about if they want outsourcing to save them money, by Amanda Lewis, partner at Denton Wilde Sapte Read more...
Every opportunity to save money must be seized in the new, more austere NHS, says David Pokora, executive director of the Lift Council Read more...
Construction projects can cost twice as much in Britain as they do in Europe, wasting billions of pounds. Now, a government investigation aims to find out why. By Max Rashbrooke Read more...
When local council contracts end, hidden pension risks could sting unwary outsourcing firms. By John Prior, head of public sector outsourcing, Punter Southall Read more...
The new coalition government is intent on cutting public spending. But there are pressing infrastructure demands and private money will be needed – especially for schemes that deliver savings on a modest outlay. Paul Jarvis reports Read more...
The new government desperately needs more private capital for infrastructure investment. Could the cheap, off-balance-sheet finance raised by utility companies point the way? By MARK HELLOWELL Read more...
1 May 2010 - SCHOOLS OUCH
Education contractors could still be hit hard by new environmental laws says Mark Henning and Georgia Elliott-Smith, directors at Appleyards. Read more...
Sean Fishlock and Tim Williams, managing directors, Navigant, reveal why Government policy post-election may not be as radical as we fear. Read more...
1 May 2010 - BECAUSE NONE OF US IS AS CLEVER AS ALL OF US
More joint ventures are vital if the public sector is to save money and protect services says Danielle Lodge, associate, Reynolds Porter Chamberlain. Read more...
