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Colin Talbot is professor of government and public administration at MBS. He writes 'Whitehall Watch' in a personal capacity. Colin’s Tweets
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- ‘Poor Performers’ in the Civil Service - blame the poor bloody infantry
- Civil Service Accountability and the CS Code
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- The 50% tax rate and Mr Osborne's Department for Obfuscation (sorry, HMRC)
- Andy Coulson and and his non 'Developed Vetting' - why on earth did the Civil Service let this happen?
- Greek Deficit and Tax Evasion
- Civil Service Accountability: Who Guards the Guardians?
- Jeremy Hunt (DCMS) debacle raises again the issue of Civil Service Reform
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Tag Archives: public services
Democracy Demands: Show Us The Money!
In the film Jerry Maguire, Cuba Gooding Jr. famously demands of his Agent Maguire (Tom Cruise) that he “show me the money”. The message (in context) is simple – no amount of smooth talking from his Agent is good enough … Continue reading
Breakfast with Brown: What Should The Government Do?
After attending the Prime Ministers breakfast seminar in No. 10 on the future of public services my overwhelming feeling was that the government is still in thrall to the tyranny of the new. An underlying theme was that they needed … Continue reading
The Invisible Hand’s Shadow
The shadow economy as an issue for public policy and public administration is something I have been banging on about for several years (see A False Economy, Public Finance, 2004). I recently tried to raise the issue at both the … Continue reading
Posted in Whitehall
Tagged government, public services, Select Committees, shadow economy
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New EU concept paper on Public Service Reform
A very useful new ‘concept paper‘ has just been published by the European Commission, authored mainly by UK professor Norman Flynn. Aimed at the development community, it will nevertheless be of interest to all scholars and practitioners of public management.
Posted in Public Management
Tagged Civil Service, government, public services, reform
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Rate your doctor on-line? – another Whitehall-centric initiative
Even when the Government claims to be ‘empowering patients’ it manages to do it in a Whitehall-centric way.
Posted in Public Management, Whitehall
Tagged NHS, performance, public services, spending, Whitehall
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Modernising Government Mk II: ‘Working Together’
Back in 1999 ‘Modernising Government’ was finally published. After nearly two years gestation the general verdict was that it was indeed an elephant – huge, sprawling and ungainly. Everything including the kitchen-sink had been thrown into the lengthy, turgid and … Continue reading
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Tagged crisis, government, local government, public services, spending
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Gizza Job? Jobcentres Plus stitched up by Minister.
“Gizza job”, those with long-enough memories will recall, was the catch phrase of the central character- Yosser Hughes – in Alan Bleasedale’s very dark BBC TV comedy ‘The Boys from the Blackstuff’ which aired in the middle of another big … Continue reading
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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.
Posted in Public Management
Tagged Audit Commission, CAA, CPA, local government, performance, public services
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Government Learning – an oxymoron?
A new NAO Report – Helping Government Learn – sets out to encourage better policies and practice for ‘organisational learning’ in government.
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Tagged Civil Service, government, Ministers, NAO, public services, Westminister, Whitehall
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Public Value – the next ‘Big Thing’ in public management?
Are we about to enter a new era of public management? There are good reasons to think that this may be the case.
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Tagged efficiency, government, performance, public services, Public Value
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Hard Times for Public Services
Whoever is in power at Westminster, public services are facing hard times over the next few years.
Baby P – a Victim of Joined-Up Government?
Recently a baby under the protection of social services was abused and killed. It was not the first and will not be the last, but the fact that “Baby P” was visited 60 times by social workers charged with his … Continue reading
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Tagged government, joined up, public services, social services
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