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Colin Talbot is professor of government at the University of Manchester. He writes 'Whitehall Watch' in a personal capacity.
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Please feel free to comment and especially to add your own analyses or experiences. Just click on a blog and go to the comment section at the bottom. Or you can email me at colin.talbot@mbs.ac.ukTop Posts
- Visions of Subsidiarity and the Curse of the British Political Tradition
- The Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything? It’s 43.
- The UK in 2013: A Failing Economy or a Failing State?
- Why Spending Review 2013?
- Andy Coulson and and his non 'Developed Vetting' - why on earth did the Civil Service let this happen?
- Spending Review 2013 – politics trumps planning, again.
- Universities and Public Policy
- UKIP: Building a Party when the "Party" is Over?
- Lies, Damned Lies and Government misuse of official statistics: Select Committee Attacks Government
- BT Infinity - Infinitely Unavailable?
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- colinrtalbot on Visions of Subsidiarity and the Curse of the British Political Tradition
- Brat on Lord O’Donnell Suggests …. that someone rather like him should be put in charge of vetting government policy. Seriously?
- Inquisitive Practitioner on Lord O’Donnell Suggests …. that someone rather like him should be put in charge of vetting government policy. Seriously?
- Chris Wilson on UKIP: Building a Party when the “Party” is Over?
- brian carr on UKIP: Building a Party when the “Party” is Over?
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Tag Archives: Audit Commission
From CPA to CAA – Local Government Gets Lost in Translation?
The Audit Commission published its final CPA (comprehensive performance assessment) report on English local government this week.
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Tagged Audit Commission, CAA, CPA, local government, performance, public services
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‘Joined-Up’ Children’s Services Failing – It’s Official
In my recent article for Public Servant magazine I speculated that the new ‘joined-up’ Children’s Services departments might have been a contributory factor in the failure to protect Baby P in Haringey. Now it turns out that Children’s Services across … Continue reading
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Tagged Audit Commission, Children's services, CPA, social services
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