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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
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- The Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything? It’s 43.
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- The UK in 2013: A Failing Economy or a Failing State?
- Spending Review 2013 – politics trumps planning, again.
- Lord O'Donnell Suggests .... that someone rather like him should be put in charge of vetting government policy. Seriously?
- ‘Poor Performers’ in the Civil Service - blame the poor bloody infantry
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Tag Archives: social services
‘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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Caring for Carers?
New NAO study reveals extent of carers contribution and DWPs failure to seek out those not claiming Continue reading
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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