Public bodies
The death of the Audit Commission and other improvement agencies
Event to mark the publication of a new study about how improvement agencies rise and fall.
Dying to Improve
This report provides three short studies of the fate of three different improvement agencies.
Floodcheck
What is the background to the flooding debacle?
Burying the bodies
Questions linger about the Public Bodies Reform Programme.
Ofsted row obscures important facts about public appointments
We unpack them.
The Strange Case of Non-Ministerial Departments
A deeper look at this obscure category of government bodies, which cover organisations from the Royal Mint to the National Crime Agency.
Public inquiries - be careful what you wish for
We need a guide to effective public inquiries.
Are public inquiries worth the time, money and resources?
There are many challenges to running a public inquiry.
It takes two
Our report looks at what is needed for effective relations between government departments and arm’s-length bodies.
The dull bits of avoiding plane and political crashes
It's worth spending some of the energy now focused on UKBA and the Home Office thinking about the dull bits of accountability.