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Our public safety services are overly complicated, inaccessible, and not delivering strong justice outcomes and clear value for money, says a report published today: 2020 Public Safety: Opportunities for Reform. As a new round of reforms begins, it is essential to agree the principles that hold together this vast range of diverse activity.

The curriculum is too long, overly prescriptive, constrains teachers and stifles innovation. The admissions system is a mess - a fact evidenced by extraordinary levels of social segregation between schools. Shifts in culture, power and finance: a way forward for education, a new report published today by the 2020 Public Services Trust, identifies these problems, and calls for future education and schooling to be address them by becoming more localised and more personalised.

After 30 years of welfare reform the public could be forgiven for failing to notice any changes. Successive governments have tried both to get spending under control and to ensure that those who need it get help. Neither task has been achieved.

This new report argues for a new way of thinking about welfare and a new approach to reform. 2020 Welfare: Life, Work, Locality, published today by the 2020 Public Services Trust sets out a route to unlocking citizen action and for greater transparency of welfare spending for ordinary people.

There is a clear gap between public services that help us improve our own lives and those of others and the health and social care services we experience today, says a new report published today by the 2020 Public Services Trust. Improving Health Outcomes: A Guide for Action provides a practical framework for helping people within different parts of the health and social care system make strategic and coherent policy decisions that align change with improved outcomes.

Damaging, entrenched, inequalities persist, despite years of public service reform and significant investment, a new report published today by the 2020 Public Services Trust says. Equality, Cohesion and Public Services calls for public service reform that unlocks progress on the most entrenched inequalities and fosters a greater sense of personal and shared responsibility for service decisions.

The report describes the way equality and cohesion definitions have evolved in recent years, and sets out some of the policy instruments used to resolve tensions and narrow equalities gaps. There have been significant achievements, but progress has for the most part been modest at best.