Sentences with phrase «in public service reform»

Picking up on our first answer, readers interested in public service reform internationally will want to understand the «critical case» of the UK.

Young people and potential lib dem voters will be particularly attracted to the radical constitutional reform, and middle England and pensioners will place high value in public service reform and voluntary individual budgets etc..

Not exact matches

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.

«To help get that revolution started in the public sector, working with the Cabinet Office, I've been pushing hard for radical reforms to the way in which the Civil Service pays and supports its staff after their children are born.

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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.

«The consequence of the long - drawn - out negotiations over the latest reform appears to be little or no long - term saving to the taxpayer or reduction in generosity, on average, of pensions for public service workers,» Carl Emmerson, deputy director of the IFS, said.

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.

The partners of the international community in the reform process in all relevant policy areas — especially agriculture, labour legislation, public services, and social security — are all segments of BiH society, not just local political elites.

To ensure that taxpayers and the vulnerable populations served by these agencies receive the maximum value for the funds paid, Governor Cuomo is proposing the following reforms beginning in 2012 - 13: • At least 85 percent of every public dollar will be spent on direct services, not administration.

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.

«He has championed issues throughout his distinguished career in public service that will be top priorities for me — from consumer protection and tenants» rights to environmental conservation and government reform.»

Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.

At this meeting, Executive Director of the Kings County Democratic Party Jeff Feldman committed to providing details and answering questions on the review of the reforms by the party's newly created Rules Committee following a panel discussion on Women in Public Service including Public Advocate Letitia James and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

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?

The Reform think - tank today launched a new report highlighting cases of successful private sector involvement in public services.

The Telegraph's Philip Johnston applauds the reduction in public sector jobs: «Removing many back office staff is a good thing because it becomes necessary to deal with people directly rather than split the functions of a service... The fact is that the public sector employs 800,000 more people than in 1997, many of them engaged in developing specifications, writing guidance, drawing up standards, devising targets, enforcing inspections — all in the name of a reform programme that does not work properly.

In domestic policy terms, the impact of devolution meant that the Brown government's capacity to reform public services was confined to England, where Brown had no personal democratic mandate to intervene.

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.

Cost of Government Administration: It is often said that NPM reforms associated with Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s focused on cost - cutting of the central bureaucracy to the detriment of staff morale and public services.

Professionals working in the public services, battered by constant upheavals, find the rhetoric of apparently endless «radical reform» even less appealing.

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.

In a statement to the Commons yesterday, immediately after PMQs, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander talked of a «generous offer» being made by the Government to reform public service pensions.

Brown parried, in his reshuffle news conference, setting out the «three legs» of his strategy, including public services tailored to the individual, constitutional reform and some other stuff, but people had already lost interest.

Mrs Awadzi has more than 21 years of experience in financial regulation, public finance law, legal and regulatory reforms, and transactions advisory services.

It's an interesting shift of direction for Policy Exchange, since Godson's expertise is in security issues, rather than the think tank's familiar home ground of public service reform.

Unlike the Liberal Democrats» broken pledge to oppose hikes in tuition fees, which has severely dented the standing of the party on the national stage and clobbered Clegg's own personal ratings, the Conservatives had a clear mandate to proceed with reforming Britain's hospitals, schools and other vital public services to drive up the quality in a more cost effective way.

Finally in the traditionalist Conservative mould YouGov asked about radical reform of the public services, involving the private sector.

A rueful Nick Clegg, reflecting on the unpopularity of the coalition's health reforms, once admitted that it is best in politics to make sure the public believe there is a problem with a public service before you suggest a solution.

More revelations about John Prescott are in Fleet Street's pipeline, Scotland Yard is still investigating loans - for - peerages and Labour MPs are not going to keep quiet when Tony Blair brings forward further public service reforms.

Reforming the state's pension plan for new employees will put our costs in line with other states across the nation and preserve the invaluable services, like education and public safety, that make New York the best place to live, do business and raise a family.»

His focus over the coming days will be on restructuring the Government on the big challenges facing the country for the future: how we guide the economy through the downturn and strengthen it for the future; how we push ahead with reform of and investment in our public services; and how we renew trust in our democracy and Parliament.

The Howard League for Penal Reform believes that a modern resolution service would be in a better position to engage with all members of the public.

«I want to thank the Commission members and staff for their dedication and public service, and look forward to reviewing the Commission's findings in detail and continuing to work with the Legislature to enact systemic reform.»

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 statemenIn 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 statemenin a statement.

Ebibai called on the Bayelsa citizenry to support the ongoing public sector reform for the emergence of a virile and efficient public service to drive development in the state.

«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.

The big project for him and Osborne is the economy and the reform of public services in which they hope their so - called big society replaces the state.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gladys Carrión, his commissioner of the Administration for Childrens» Services, announced a series of reforms in the aftermath of the death of 6 - year - old Zymere Perkins — but Public Advocate Letitia James says Carrión flat - out is not doing a good job.

Well you can be in favour of that or not, but does it alter the nature of any hard decision you have to take on reform, on public services?

Imagine if he'd turned out to be an unpopular leader who had stuck to his central message that Labour needed to move to the right, entertain radical reform of public services, tackle the deficit through cuts and be avowedly pro-business, even though many commentators and many in his party thought that the cost of living crisis and pre-distribution were more important themes.

A 2008 paper from CentreForum noted a «significant congruence of opinion» between the two parties, driven in large part by a shared critique of an over-mighty state and shared instincts on the potential for reform of public services.

While a new leader is always keen to stamp their authority on the party and fashion a ministerial team in their own image is it really wise for Red Ed to have promoted Diane Abbott yet sidelined the cerebral Pat McFadden who has a strong contribution to make to the debate on public service reform?

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.

To restore the public trust in public service, he's leading the effort to bring ethics reform to Albany by helping to pass a constitutional amendment stripping officials convicted of a felony of their taxpayer - funded retirement and instituting term limits on legislative leadership position, ensuring no one can accumulate entrenched power and use it to his or her advantage.

Responding to the report published today by Policy Exchange arguing for reform of the public sector pay and pensions frameworks, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «This report appears to be another example of supporters of the Coalition Government seeking to rally support for localised pay in the face of a dearth of evidence to back up the Coalition's proposals for the abolition of national pay frameworks for public services.

John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth, said: «I have great hopes for What Works Scotland in deepening and scaling up the Scottish approach to public service delivery and reform.

So this is our agenda for a revolution in the prisons system — all centred around those powerful public service reform principles.

«Those who suggest that the whole of government can focus on delivering on only one thing at a time seem to forget what reforms are already in progress across our public services — at precisely the same time and maintaining our relentless efforts to ensure our economy is on the right track,» Mr Alexander added.