Sentences with phrase «public service reform»

And it's true that trying to push through four lots of public service reform at once is one set too many.

This requires a new approach to public service reform based on local democracy and integrated local delivery in actual communities of place.

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.

Giving people greater agency and control should be one of the objectives of public service reform - not a narrow focus on individual choice / exit power.

This week the Schools Secretary Ed Balls and the Health Secretary Alan Johnson will announce more health and education shake - ups, signalling a further drive in public service reform of the type pursued by Tony Blair.

Or will the whole public services reform agenda fail?»

Email: [email protected] Date: 6 November 2013 Venues: McDonald Rooms Conference Centre, Hanover Housing, 95 McDonald Road, Edinburgh, EH7 4NS Audience: Specific interest More Information: Community Resilience under Public Service Reform event website The support of community empowerment and resilience is a core element of public policy reform in Scotland.

Jonathan Clifton, IPPR associate director for public service reform, said: «Bad teaching blights a child's future prospects and can cost children the equivalent of a whole year's worth of education.

Miliband said nothing substantive on public service reform in his speech today and he will be under pressure not to let his liberalism mutate into an abandonment of tough messages on crime, personal responsibility and antisocial behaviour.

Liam has written widely about public service reform, economic development, and shared values.

Cuts and public service reforms mean that the risk of hospital hygiene slipping down the patient care priority list is worse than ever.

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.

Event: The Community Resilience under Public Service Reform Organiser: Fiona Smith.

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

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.

«Since transparency is key to effective public service reform, probation providers will come under keener scrutiny,» he said.

On this analysis, therefore, the received view about the effect of public service reforms seems only partly correct; there is some evidence that government performed somewhat worse on traditional administrative tasks involving careful and consistent application of rules, but running costs rose, not fell.

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.

Critics of New Labour say part of the reason Gordon Brown's government felt so rudderless was because it had an ill - defined public service reform agenda; supporters say the party was trying out these new methods but didn't have time to get beyond the piloting stage.

Long - term preventative work right from early years, mental health, prison reform, job guarantees, adult social care, based again around radical public service reform and devolution of services.

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 will mean stepping up efficiency savings, it will mean accelerating public service reforms, it will mean committing to far - reaching asset sales and securing responsible pay deals and it will mean switching resources from lower to higher priority areas that better meet the new challenges.»

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

The media stunt is meant to underline the right - wing party's bid to colonise Tory turf on such traditional issues as public service reform and tax.

The BBOG founder advised the two lawmakers to emulate the Bureau of Public Service Reforms after the BPSR's Director General of Dr. Joe Abah presented its 2017 Budget bill to the general public.

I left soon after — not because Labour weren't left wing enough but because Blair was having his radical and neccessary public service reforms stifled by Brown et al..

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.

The policy - unveiled at the Conservative spring conference in Cheltenham - will be seen as a bold attempt by the Tories to seize the Blairite public service reform agenda which they claim is being dismantled by Mr Blair's successor as prime minister, Gordon Brown.

It is difficult to conceive of how a meaningful estimate could be accurately produced...» This, the report argues, demonstrates a fundamental flaw with the LASPO reforms: Government has not conceived public services reform in a holistic, cross-departmental way.

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?

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.

Take the personal allegiances out of it, and policy differences about public service reform are not an ideological argument to cascade down the generations.

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.

The coalition's public service reform agenda risks being derailed if ministers do not deal with civil servants who oppose change, MPs have warned.

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.

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..

This one - day seminar will examine the implications and opportunities arising from the policy ambitions for community empowerment and resilience at a time of public service reform (PSR).

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.

Mr Osborn questioned Mr Brown's commitment to public service reform, claiming the chancellor lacks vision.

So the previous Government did introduce some reforms for the long term, even if, especially at the end, there was no energy left to tackle the long - term challenges like political reform, public services reform, or welfare reform.

Blair acknowledges in his account that half - promises about an early departure were made in 2003, but in his eyes, they were conditional on Brown committing himself to Number 10's version of public services 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.

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.

Mainly because the UK is so commonly said to have been one of the earliest and most enthusiastic adopters of NPM - style reforms since the 1980s — indeed, long before that phrase was coined by one of us in the late 1980s to denote a set of loosely related ideas about government and public service reform that stress themes such as active public management, measured performance outcomes, disaggregation and competition in public services.

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

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

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