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Shifts in Culture, Power and Finance: A Way Forward for Education?
What do students, parents and professionals want from the education system? Do the Commission's ideas on reforming public services suggest a better way forward? This report sets out the findings from a deliberative event in Peterborough in June 2010. Contributions from Matthew Taylor and Julian Astle reflect on the themes that emerged. They find an overly prescriptive system which undervalues teachers and needs to engage parents more fully.
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Articles
Avoiding a repeat of the 1980s
For all the reform strategies and grand narratives emerging from Whitehall, much of the real action will happen at the local level.
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A new settlement for public services, by Clare Tickell
When the Commission on 2020 Public Services first met, before the credit crunch, one of our challenges was to wake people up to the looming crisis in public services. Well, nobody is asleep any more.
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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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