Sentences with phrase «more public service reform»

A serving Labour minister with a future stands up and says managerialism and triangulation are bad, New Labour is basically over, that Labour needs to be a movement again — gives tentative respect to the Iraq war marches, and says more public service reform and tax credits won't solve the challenges of a liveable decent society.

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Gordon Brown today said public sector reforms must go «wider and deeper» to provide a more personalised service.

I've been meaning to write something on a left republican view of public service reform, but need to gather my thoughts a bit (er, lot) more first.

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.

Compassites like Jon Cruddas, Ed Miliband and Neal Lawson seem completly relaxed about applying a more enlightened and compassionate liberalism to public services and are not particularly critical of New Labour's public service reforms.

Former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Benito Romano said, «Attorney General Schneiderman understands that New Yorkers not only need stronger enforcement tools for fighting corruption, but also systemic reforms that make public service more transparent and ethical, allowing honest, hard - working public servants to thrive.

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.

Just still on the domestic agenda: One of the things Brown could talk a bit more about is public service reform.

Take devolution further, giving cities more ability to reform and align public services through a «place - based» approach.

Deficit reduction, constructive welfare reform, more responsive public services, a measured demonstration that promises are being kept on crime and immigration — combined with a greater sense of direction and grip — all qualify.

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

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.

State Sen. Daniel Squadron also said «fundamental reform of the system» is needed «including laws to create a better campaign finance system and more open and competitive elections, and to disentangle public service from for - profit business.»

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.

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.

Mr Brown has recently tried to move back towards the Blairite agenda of public service reform, promising more personalised services and a move away from central Government targets.

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.

Farron was much more mischievous when he turned to public - service reform.

I tried to switch to a nearby public school with more services, but because of 2011's special ed reform, I was told she now had to be served by her zoned school, and they were giving her all that they could.

This past legislative session, these charter school and education reform entities spent in excess of $ 500,000 successfully persuading legislators to cut their own district's public school funding, at the same time they were sending even more taxpayer money to Connecticut's charter schools, despite the fact that these private institutions have traditionally refused to educate their fair share of students who need special education services, children who require help learning the English Language or those who have behavioral issues.

It will take more than lip service to reform these institutions, but if the voters reject giving more money to the public school system in their state, they should at least demand a re-evaluation of policies that are systematically disadvantaging key demographics of students.

For example, the New York Public Service Commission's Reforming the Energy Vision is aiding this evolution by encouraging pilot programs that offer customers more choices in programming and create new business models at utilities.

And rather than a comprehensive reform of its market structure, the Public Service Commission appears focused on more specific technologies and issues.

The central message of the Drummond report is that savings can be secured through reforms that will make public services in Ontario better and more efficient.

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.