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We regulate many areas of public and commercial life – but does it work? Most people will have heard of OFSTED (which inspects schools and other settings where children and young people are cared for) and the Care Quality Commission (which inspects hospitals, general practices, care homes and other health and care providers). Do all these regulators contribute to improving schools, hospitals and so on – or do they just add costs and bureaucracy for the organisations they oversee?

Entrepreneurs who use skilled hand gestures when pitching to investors are more likely to secure funding than those who don’t, according to new research conducted by academics at Alliance Manchester Business School

Care Quality Commission (CQC)’s “Ofsted-style” inspection and rating regime is a significant improvement on the system it replaced, but it could be made more effective, according to the first major evaluation of the approach introduced in 2013.

Manchester faces a looming “growing crisis” as its housing and transport infrastructure fails to keep pace with expected job growth because of its “misguided” developer-led regeneration approach, according to an Alliance Manchester Business School report.