Out of the darkness and into the light

摘要

Now the UK Government's long anticipated Comprehensive Spending Review has been revealed local authorities will be busying through the details of the most prominent spending review in a generation to find out where the axe hit and, maybe more importantly, how many limbs have been lost As the dust slowly begins to settle around a new era of austerity many local authorities in the UK will find themselves in a world where novel means of gaining efficiencies such as outsourcing or collaborative procurement are king.