Thursday 21st May, 2015

A new joint working partnership agreement between Gloucester City Council and Gloucestershire County Council was signed last week which will involve a shared programme to jointly provide back office services.

Wednesday, 20th May 2015

As reported in The Guardian, Business secretary Sajid Javid has pledged to crack down on the problem of late payment, which is set to cost British business more than £40bn this year.

Tuesday 19th May , 2015

The European Commission and OpenPEPPOL are joining forces to support the uptake of secure electronic data exchange across borders. The agreement means that the Commission will host a central service of the eDelivery network, while OpenPEPPOL will continue to manage the business-related governance of the network in the e-procurement domain.

Monday, 18th May 2015

Almost £500 million of taxpayers' money has been saved by councils sharing services, according to new research. Since the shared services map was first compiled in 2012, councils have made £462 million of savings by sharing services with each other, the Local Government Association (LGA) has found. This is an increase of £105 million on the total of £357 million from last year.