In an op-ed for Public Sector Executive, Trinley Walker, a senior policy researcher at the New Local Government Network (NLGN), looks at the role of ‘public-private partnerships.’ “Carillion’s demise was spectacular. A rapacious business model that hoovered-up new contracts while running on wafer-thin margins was bound to come unstuck. Criticism of the company, its approach, and government’s lack of oversight of the looming crisis is entirely justified. But to what extent are the ramifications of the Carillion debacle filtering down to the local level and influencing procurement decisions across local authorities? This question was part of the NLGN’s recent report, ‘From Transactions to Changemaking: rethinking partnerships between the public and private sectors,’ which set out a blueprint for a new way of working between the public and private sectors.”