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Profile: Union city blues - Diana Warwick was a union woman even in her school days in Bradford. Sophia Ewen meets her now that she's made the switch to management
Ewen, Sophia - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (1998), pp. 18-19
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005901613
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Feeling bearish? Index-tracking funds may be passive, but in the bullish market of the last ten years they have been making higher returns than actively-managed funds. Can they sur...
Dimbylow, Edward; Ewen, Sophia - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (1998), pp. 16-20
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005901761
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Paying the piper - There is a growing trend to outsource payroll and personnel services. The author explains why it is a development that could lead to the courts calling the tune
Ewen, Sophia - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (1998), pp. 20-26
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005902036
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Profile - The print workers' champion Brenda - now Lady - Dean has turned her energies to various public bodies, including the chairmanship of the Housing Corporation. She explains...
Ewen, Sophia - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (1998), pp. 12-13
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005902040
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The borrowers - Less money from central government means that housing associations are having to borrow if they want to provide their tenants with secure homes and keep themselves...
Ewen, Sophia - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (1997), pp. 19-21
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005904172
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Cash and mortar - The PFI was launched five years ago but only one deal in the post-16 education sector has been signed. Sophia Ewen looks at why colleges are not tying the private...
Ewen, Sophia - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (1997), pp. 10-12
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005904415
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False economy - Fraudulent housing benefit claims cost the state between GBP 900m and GBP2bn a year, a situation compounded by councils' inability to fight fraud. Sophia Ewen repor...
Ewen, Sophia - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (1997), pp. 10-11
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005904450
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Sanding over the cracks - If further education was allowed to reinvest money from tuition fees, Liverpool university's John Sandbach explains to Sophia Ewen, it would give universi...
Ewen, Sophia - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (1997), pp. 20-23
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005904553
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Affordable options - At last week's National Housing Federation conference the government warned that it would no longer tolerate the continuing rise in social housing rents and be...
Ewen, Sophia - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (1997), pp. 17-19
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005904566
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Expensive housekeeping - Council housing is in trouble, says the housing sector, and the cost of saving it will be hefty. So it has come up with a rescue plan.
Ewen, Sophia - In: Public finance : the business monthly of the public sector (1997), pp. 10-11
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005904663