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Scoping the Challenges for 2020 Public Services
A Brief History of Public Service Reform
A Brief History of Public Service Reform is the first publication in the Scoping the Challenges for 2020 Public Services series. This series of three publications seek to survey the landscape of issues and questions we need to pose to hold a coherent and comprehensive debate on the future of public services. A Brief History of Public Service Reform is an analysis of UK welfare and public services from before 1945 to the present day. It explores the evolution of the system and when, why and how change took place. This report seeks to answer how we have got here and identify the prospects for radical reform – aiding the national conversation on the future of public services.
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Articles
Soap Box
The state needs to be smaller. This is the conclusion not of the coalition government, but of a cross-party group of politicians and experts on the RSA’s 2020 Public Services Trust, whose final report is out soon.
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Meeting the place-based challenge
Bill Cooper of KPMG and Ben Lucas of the 2020 Public Services Trust warn that many councils are not yet fully prepared to take on the new responsibilities of place-based budgeting.
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The coalition's NHS reforms - far enough or a 'quick fix'?
The NHS was recently ranked as one of the most efficient and effective health systems in the world, so is radical reform an unnecessary risk? Dr Greg Parston looks into the matter.
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A Budget for cuts but is it a Budget for reform?
Either public services need to be reformed or they don't. It makes no sense to exclude the most expensive service of all from this process, the NHS, writes Ben Lucas, director 2020 PST.
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Seize the day
Ben Lucas talks spending cuts and suggests that now is the time to sieze the opportunity for structural reform with a long-term approach for a new post-Beveridge framework for public services.
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