Public Service Reform Articles

Three hearty cheers for Louise Casey. Her report published last week dealing, euphemistically, with troubled families, will be seen in history as a milestone in reforming our client-based welfare state. Casey was no doubt critical of the term of references she was...

Should there be a Progress column on public service reform? Not according to Polly Toynbee, who argues today that the coalition have abandoned the centre-ground and opened the NHS up to privatisation. In her view, Labour in government will have to repair the damage,...

Today’s report by the Nuffield Trust and Institute for Fiscal Studies is crucial reading. It suggests some of the political choices which will face the parties in 2015. In essence, the two respected institutes forecast that the NHS will probably have to halve its...

The prime minister obviously likes shooting from the hip, exercising his skills this weekend. As a true heir-to-Blair the weekend press was softened up with the punchlines of the speech he made yesterday. If good headlines were the aim then the exercise must count as...