public services Articles

Sharing power, and reforming the Labour party to do it, could breathe new life into our politics After Labour’s staggering defeat in 2010 few people thought we could go down even further, but in 2015 we did. We were wiped out in Scotland, have hardly any...

‘Marketisation’ has become the main slogan driving public policy towards many public services from hospitals to prisons, from nursery schools to care homes for the elderly. The public is invited to welcome the introduction of markets as the advent of freedom of...

Perhaps the most important insight from this collection of interviews by Liz Kendall MP and Steve Reed MP is the huge impact that people prepared to think differently about public services can have on the quality of local services. Whether it is social entrepreneurs...

Sure Start was to Blair’s government what the NHS was to Attlee’s. It was a radical extension of the state into a field previously characterised by an uneven patchwork of providers. Like the NHS, it universalised a service previously only guaranteed to the...