Public Service Reform Articles

The Purple Papers and Steve Van Riel’s chapter on Public Services and Political Choices rightly emphasise that there are no pain-free options for public services in the future. They accurately describe the risks and trade-offs which a future Labour government would...

Those hoping for insight at conference into Labour’s future health policy were left clear about the party’s animosity to the Health and Social Care Act but none the wiser about what would animate it in government. Will Labour find a moral purpose on health as it seems...

Voters get tough on welfare. That was the punchline in the chapter on welfare in the recently published British Attitudes Survey.  This significant change in attitude does not follow previous cyclical trends where increasing unemployment was accompanied by a more...

The world is, thankfully, full of temptations and the latest to face the Labour party has the label ‘long-term care’ attached to it. The particular form of care reform now on offer must be resisted by Labour. Partly on the simple grounds that it does nothing to help...