Sentences with phrase «as public service reform»

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And as usual, advisory firms like Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) are joining with the public pension funds to demand governance reforms that perform better in theory than in practice.

As health - care demands change and the system transititions, ongoing reforms of China's health - care service sector are being implemented to help equalize basic public health service, establish a primary health - care service system, and reform public hospitals.

Finally, the report noted that state and local revenue gains from federal tax reform will be further offset by higher costs for state and local borrowing, resulting from tax reform, and greater demand for public services as charitable donations drop and federal budget cuts continue.

Dr Rutherford will explore the themes of cooperation and altruism in his event «Community Resilience under Public Service Reform» as part of the ESRC's Festival of Social Science on the 6th November in Edinburgh.

First, over the next year, each Labour spending team will prepare a report on Public Service Reform and Re-Design setting out how we deliver better public services with less money, involving employees, charities, and the voluntary sector in our deliberations, as well as business and public provPublic Service Reform and Re-Design setting out how we deliver better public services with less money, involving employees, charities, and the voluntary sector in our deliberations, as well as business and public provpublic services with less money, involving employees, charities, and the voluntary sector in our deliberations, as well as business and public provpublic providers.

For Marquand, the 19th century was the great age of the public realm when Gladstone's reforms to the civil service enshrined an ethos of professionalism and public service and a civic pride and energy was unleashed across the country, as captured in the great civic architecture of northern cities.

How can a party that has recently been seen as «left of Labour» on civil liberties, democratic reform, taxation and public services now be engaged so enthusiastically in reducing the size of the state?

As we made these critical reforms, we also streamlined public program eligibility processes to ensure that eligible uninsured New Yorkers could get the health care services they need.

To some extent, this is of course understandable as UK elections are rarely won or lost on the basis of foreign policy with domestic social policy, especially in the context this year of a still recovering economy and broad public service reforms half completed.

With Andrew Lansley having being sacked as health secretary in mid-term and Michael Gove just shunted out of education, sacking Duncan Smith would have reflected too badly on this government's public service reform agenda.

He needs to focus on bread and butter issues like jobs and mortgages and public services and, above all, to develop a clear route map to growth, and stop fixating on the agenda of a liberal clique around him and barmy policies such as Lords reform and gay marriage, which people either don't like or don't care about.

«Community members throughout New York find it offensive that legislators like George Amedore, who have blocked ethics reforms and treat their public service as a hobby rather than a full - time job, would try to give themselves a pay hike,» Niccoli wrote.

Meanwhile, Jon Black, president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors» Association, warns that if current reforms are as disastrous as expected, we may see the rise of the currently - defunct Public Defender Service, with the state both prosecuting and defending an individual.

David Cameron has condemned the pace of public service reform under Labour as «frenetic» and «often contradictory» - but said he would keep most of the changes.

That is an aim we're fulfilling through public service reform — as in schools, where parents are getting more control than ever before over their children's education.

«In the Senate, I want to fight for public safety and criminal justice reform, education programs, affordable housing, increased access to mental health care, economic development and opportunities, and social service reforms, especially as they affect middle class families and the working poor,» he said in a statement.

«Keith Wright's only career has been in government and he's a valuable commodity because of his public service as an elected official,» said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government reform group.

Prior to Pew, he was assistant director of communications at SEIU, where he focued on union's property services division — including the national Justice for Janitors and security officers» campaigns — as well as for campaigns with the public services and healthcare divisions and in support of Wall Street reform and immigration reform.

Tory strategists» search for a «big idea» before the general election seized on the Big Society as a way of providing an intellectual link between the Conservative priorities of boosting social action, public service reform and community empowerment.

«As Commissioner Carrión steps down, all of us must step up our push to reform the Administration for Children's Services,» the Public Advocate said in a statement.

Other areas of our work that also have human rights and equalities angles include our campaigns around state - funded religious schools, religious education, for public service reform, and on ethical issues such as abortion and assisted dying.

As Tony King points out in his commentary, support for Cameron must be largely image based, since the majority (61 %) of the public had little idea on what Cameron's views were in regard of levels of public spending on reform of public services.

For parties supposedly on the centre left, public - service reform is almost as divisive as Europe is for the Conservatives.

As the prime minister pledged over the weekend to respond to the economic downturn by speeding up the reform of public services, the new campaign warned that a «draconian» welfare policy was not the right one in a recession.

George Osborne opened his remarks today by outlining what he described as the principles governing his spending review: public service reform, «fairness» (defined as «we're all in this together») and promoting economic growth.

As strong as the clamour may be for public service reform, there is absolutely no appetite for the State to withdraw from education and healtAs strong as the clamour may be for public service reform, there is absolutely no appetite for the State to withdraw from education and healtas the clamour may be for public service reform, there is absolutely no appetite for the State to withdraw from education and health.

Hawkins called for progressive tax reforms and increased state revenue sharing with local governments to pay for the Green New Deal as well as fully fund state and local public services and enable local governments to reduce high and regressive property taxes.

As he so often does when asked about fundraising, de Blasio stressed the need for campaign finance reform, advocating for full public financing of elections that would not only pull big moneyed interests out of politics but would also focus, «all that time that goes into fundraising now back into public service.»

As Cabinet Office Minister, Maude is responsible for: public service efficiency and reform groups, Civil Service issues, industrial relations strategy in the public sector, transparency, civil contingencies, civil society and cyber-seservice efficiency and reform groups, Civil Service issues, industrial relations strategy in the public sector, transparency, civil contingencies, civil society and cyber-seService issues, industrial relations strategy in the public sector, transparency, civil contingencies, civil society and cyber-security.

The journal offers a forum for the presentation of research and policy initiatives in education, social services, public policy, and welfare reform as they affect children, youths, and families in poverty.

There is no tax break, no welfare reform, no marriage education program, no public service campaign... that can reduce out - of - wedlock birth rates and divorce rates to what they were as recently as when the Everly Brothers beseeched «Little Suzy» to wake up lest their reputations get shot.

It said free schools were potentially an important part of «open public services» and are highlighted in the government's schools reform plans as a key route to achieving fairer access.

Board includes Gregory Prince (President, Educational Services Associates), Carol Thompson Cole (President & CEO, Venture Philanthropy Partners), Deborah McGriff (Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund), Chris Whittle (an education entrepreneur who founded the ill - fated Edison Schools and now serves as the chief executive officer of Avenues: The World School, «a planned international system of independent pre-K-12 schools) and Kevin P. Chavous (CEO of the Chavous Group, an education reform consulting and public relations group).

Mr. Chavous, who served as board president in the very early years of the school, was honored for his impressive record of public service and leadership with many notable accomplishments in K - 12 education reform.

Cooper also devoted decades to public service, becoming a New York City alderman, supporting the antislavery and Native American reform movements, and at 85 serving as the presidential nominee of the populist Greenback Party.

Social inequalities can be reduced through the defense of human rights, the rule of law, participatory democracy, universal access to public services, the recognition of personal dignity, a significant improvement in the effectiveness of fiscal and social policies, an ethical finance reform, large scale decent work creation policies, integration of the informal and popular economic sectors, and national and international collaboration to eradicate the new forms of slavery such as forced labor and sexual exploitation.

The groups filed a petition with the State of New York Public Service Commission asking for clarity on customer credit in the short - term to allow projects to start while the Commission evaluates future program design options as part of the state's overarching Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) initiative.

«This bill essentially takes the framework of the settlement in Hurrell - Harring and treats it something as a template for statewide reform of public defense services.»

HALCO and other specialized clinics like it focus «both on front - line work, such as direct legal services for people, in addition to public legal education, law reform and community development initiatives,» Peck said.

On February 15, 2012, the Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services (the «Commission») released its long - awaited, 543 - page report (the «Report», commonly referred to as the «Drummond Report») which identifies sweeping reform measures aimed at increasing efficiencies within the broader public service («BPS&raReform of Ontario's Public Services (the «Commission») released its long - awaited, 543 - page report (the «Report», commonly referred to as the «Drummond Report») which identifies sweeping reform measures aimed at increasing efficiencies within the broader public service («BPS&raPublic Services (the «Commission») released its long - awaited, 543 - page report (the «Report», commonly referred to as the «Drummond Report») which identifies sweeping reform measures aimed at increasing efficiencies within the broader public service («BPS&rareform measures aimed at increasing efficiencies within the broader public service («BPS&rapublic service («BPS»).

A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.

As Dr Shergold, in his capacity as Chair of the Secretaries» Group on Indigenous Affairs has observed, the reform of the administration of Indigenous affairs instituted in 2004 «set a huge challenge for the Australian Public Service (APS)»As Dr Shergold, in his capacity as Chair of the Secretaries» Group on Indigenous Affairs has observed, the reform of the administration of Indigenous affairs instituted in 2004 «set a huge challenge for the Australian Public Service (APS)»as Chair of the Secretaries» Group on Indigenous Affairs has observed, the reform of the administration of Indigenous affairs instituted in 2004 «set a huge challenge for the Australian Public Service (APS)».

While recent calls for better evidence of program and policy success are well justified, just as important is reform of the public service, which has been decimated by politicization and managerialism.

One of her accomplishments is drafting and positioning home visiting policy (MIECHV) in health care reform and shepherding its passage; Mrs. Henry - Spires also served for 10 years at the US Department of Health and Human Services, where she was the principal Public Health Advisor on Violence Against Women for the Office on Women's Health and as such developed national policies in violence against women, HIV / AIDS, and young women's health.

In the realm of delivering State services to the public, good governance reforms advance human rights when they improve the State's capacity to fulfil its responsibility to provide public goods which are essential for the protection of a number of human rights, such as the right to education, health and food.