According to the National Audit Office, the Government’s flagship welfare reform policy – Universal Credit – is in trouble. The purpose of the new benefit is to combine six existing benefits into a single payment, with the aim of ensuring that work always pays more than life on the dole. Right in principle, the problems […]
It is said that some goods are too important to be left to the market – for instance, healthcare. And, yet, there are various aspects of our health and wellbeing that we routinely entrust to private sector providers. Nutrition, for instance, or the provision of clean water. Then there’s our eyesight, which, for millions of […]
How can cutting waste in the public sector be anything other than a good thing? The answer is by misunderstanding what waste actually is and where it comes from. The point is made by John Seddon in an op-ed for the LocalGov website. In particular, he takes on one of the most important waste reduction […]