“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama If you were to go by the headlines that have dominated the news for the past decade, the state of public sector finances would seem consistently bleak. The news agenda can feel both endless and unchanging – ‘councils under pressure’, ‘NHS in crisis’, ‘cuts for local services’. It makes for pretty grim reading. In October, it seemed some welcome change was ...