There’s no hope of different public services coming together to put people back on their feet unless it happens locally.
The mission of GovernUp is to consider the far-reaching reforms needed in Whitehall and beyond to enable more effective and efficient government.
Too many patients get a swift response, but then have to wait to get to hospital.
As outlined, it suggests continuity with the Coalition’s approach. But there are tensions sbetween its aims and those of a future Labour finance team.
The number of full time-trade union representatives is now less than a fifth of the level in 2011.
A new generation of business people are out there, with the potential to boost the economy – and public services, too.
We need a creative pooling of budgets across the MOD, local authorities, health and the police to help tackle the problems caused by severe mental illness.
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 […]
Danny Kruger used to be a speechwriter for David Cameron. One day he decided that actions spoke louder than words and left politics behind to run a charity called Only Connect. It is, therefore, with the benefit of real experience that he writes for the Financial Times, with a dispatch from the frontline of the big […]
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 […]
If education were an Olympic sport, then the gold medal would go to London. That’s the conclusion of an important piece of data journalism by Chris Cook in the Financial Times: "Children in some of the poorest areas of the capital outperform those in many of the country’s most affluent boroughs, the study shows. The […]
These days, our politicians are often accused of having no experience of the ‘real world’, as if working in a think tank or advising a minister is to book a one-way ticket to fairyland. Is this a fair criticism? Admittedly, the CVs of Messrs Cameron, Clegg and Miliband aren’t exactly black with the grime of quotidian existence, […]
Supermarkets come in for a lot of stick – some of it deserved. But the critics lack credibility if they don’t also recognise the remarkable achievements of the likes of Tesco and its former chief executive, Sir Terry Leahy. The point is well made in Charles Moore’s Daily Telegraph review of Leahy’s new book, Management in Ten […]
Last month, Britain’s GPs voted to go on strike. Though industrial action by doctors is rare in this country, the vote was a reminder that professional bodies like the British Medical Association can easily rival the old National Union of Mineworkers for sheer self-interested obstinacy. However, there are signs of a global challenge to the […]
The pace of public service change is swift – but does it extend as widely as it should?