Public Service Reform Articles

Welcome to the new job, Tristram Hunt. If you look to your left, you’ll see that because you aren’t advocating full local control over schools, you are clearly incapable of being ‘distinctive and principled’. And if you look to your right, you’ll see the infernal...

The Politics of Public Sector Reform by Michael Burton is a rich yet concise account of public service reform over the past three decades that goes beyond the politics of public service reform to also look at reforms in each key area of public services, and different...

In an earlier article for Progress, I suggested that in order to restore public confidence in the democratic governance of the police, the Labour party needed to develop its own policy on police and crime commissioners in good time for the 201 per cent general...

Labour must rediscover a zeal for public service reform, argues Sonia Sodha The June spending round set out the extra cuts each government department will need to find in 2015 to meet George Osborne’s trajectory for public spending. It is a grim settlement for public...