Sentences with phrase «on public service reform»

By calling on Labour to adopt a new agenda on public service reform, local ownership and control, a green economy and a renewed democracy, LABOUR S REVIVAL offers a practical path for modernisers to follow in the tough months ahead.

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?

Labour's advisers on public service reform are joining the Conservatives.

Given the big squeeze on spending that is to come, can Labour just drift into the next election without a serious agenda on public service reform?

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 providers.

Not exact matches

The Ontario government's long awaited and much discussed report of the Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services (aka, the Drummond report) was finally publicly released this afternoon.

It would mean Greece following through on its market reforms and privatizations + Greece reforming and downsizing its civil service + Greece maintaining a stable government despite public outcry + Greece fixing its tax collection system + the troika being willing to put off some Greece interest payments and then writing off some significant portion of Greece's debt when Greece's government finally consistently reaches a primary surplus.

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.

There are long passages expressing his frustrations over public service reform and his conflicts with Brown on breaking up previous monopoly state provision, notably over academies, foundation hospitals and over tuition fees.

That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.

«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.

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.

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.

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

We disagree on foreign policy, tax rates or public service reform.

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?

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

On the contrary, the extension of choice and the development of public service markets lie at the heart of almost all the government's flagship reforms.

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.

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.

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.

Ignoring focus group feedback on the Dome, immigration, public service reform and the Iraq war spelt trouble for Labour.

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.

There is a crucial caveat though — Survation also asked what the top priority should be for the government — 31 % said immigration, 20 % the economy, 9 % jobs, 9 % public services, 6 % combating terrorism and down on 5 % constitutional 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.

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.

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.

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.

We've a big job ahead of us - on the economy, on reforming the public services, on the environment.

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?

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.

Dozens of workshops covered a range of issues, including the impact of the State budget on counties, pension funding, renewable energy, local Medicaid costs, public safety, budgeting, pre-school special education reforms, shared services, and local leadership.

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.

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.

Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS), condemned Conservative plans on welfare reform today warning that they risked taking the welfare state back to the Victorian era.

«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.

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.

But then both the BBC and News International have no interest in a candidate who will actually land some blows on Blair and Brown and introduce meaningful public service reform for the benefit of all.

On Thursday morning, a relieved Tony Blair's plan would be to focus on the «big picture» - in particular the reform of the public services - in order to create clear political dividing lines with Michael Howard's ConservativeOn Thursday morning, a relieved Tony Blair's plan would be to focus on the «big picture» - in particular the reform of the public services - in order to create clear political dividing lines with Michael Howard's Conservativeon the «big picture» - in particular the reform of the public services - in order to create clear political dividing lines with Michael Howard's Conservatives.

Publishing the Open Public Services White Paper, the Prime Minister will insist he is not going to back down on his plans for reform, despite the doubts of some senior Conservatives.

A new report by the Geiger Gibson / RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) examines the impact of health reform on community health centers (CHCs) and their patients.

Law professor at the University of South Carolina whose current research focuses on constitutional law and public education, Derek Black has written about charter schools in the context of education reform, civil rights, and service of the public priorities.

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