Features

Cabinet Member for Children and Young People Councillor Ian Jones and BSF Programme Manager Jane Dixon explain how Sandwell Council and its partners are driving forward a huge and complex scheme

Birmingham has a proud tradition of being Britain’s second city, and is looking to maintain its profile with the PPP and the PFI sector playing a part, as Steven Hughes, Birmingham City Council Chief Executive, explains to PPP Journal Editor Michael Thame.

Making sure that the private sector is accountable to local people and meeting local demand is key, believes the Liberal Democrats' Shadow Housing Minister Sarah Teather

Social housing is likely to be the next big thing in the PPP/PFI sector, with increasing numbers of local councils looking to the sector to provide solutions to their housing stock issues. Added to that is the uncertainty of a general election year and the real possibility of a change of government. In an interview with PPP Journal Editor, Michael Thame, HCA Chief Executive Sir Bob Kerslake urges clarity of commitment, funding and change when it comes to social housing.

Jacobs Executive Director Chris Wilson investigates whether Total Place is the best hope for improving delivery of public agency services at local level

Partner Adrian Turner and Sophie Robinson, Assistant Project and Infrastructure Finance Group at Eversheds discuss a monumental year for PFI and the possibilities that a new government could bring in 2010

Kevin Robertson a partner in the public services team at Dickenson Dees looks back over 2009 and sheds light on what 2010 holds for the love it or hate it Private Finance Initiative (PFI).

Partnerships for Schools chief executive Tim Byles looks ahead into 2010 and reflects on the ongoing investment into transforming schools across the UK

Councillor John Shipley, Leader of Newcastle City Council, and the Council's Head of Major Projects Alison Fellows explain how Newcastle upon Tyne has been transformed with the help of PPP and PFI funding.

Kevin Crompton, Chief Executive of Luton Borough Council, shares the authority's views on what it hopes to achieve with its ambitious Building Schools for the Future programme