public services Articles

We need an approach that places the user at the fore of all decisions on who should provide a service, argues Margaret Hodge MP – and that starts we these four reforms The collapse of Carillion will impact on service users, workers and the taxpayer. The government...

This year, under threat from the Scottish National party government in Edinburgh, Highland council had to make savings totalling £39.856m to produce a balanced budget. All services will be affected to a greater or lesser extent from education through to burials. One...

Round two of the 2016 budget has Osborne promising to jettison his changes to disability benefits and having his record torn apart by Angela Eagle. But to dismiss his budget as a huge failure would be to underestimate what has happened. In fact the budget book shows...

Labour rejected the fatalistic assumption that public services could never really deliver higher standards or fairer access, reflects Jacqui Smith Before my election to parliament in 1997, I was a teacher in Tory Worcestershire. My classroom was in a portakabin and a...