Public services
Verify problems highlight four challenges for digital projects
The problems seen in the rolling out of Verify highlight issues for future technology projects.
Five things you should know before you vote in the English local elections
From bin collection and filling potholes to social care, local councils provide vital services.
The Government must not continue delaying the social care green paper
The fifth delay to the publication of the social care green paper is a cause for concern.
Now is the time for the Government to empower the Ombudsman
If the Ombudsman is to be truly effective it needs more power to investigate failings, not just adjudicate complaints.
Labour’s outsourcing policy risks creating more problems
Labour is right to identify outsourcing failures but its new policy risks creating more problems than it addresses.
Emergency police funding continues a sticking plaster approach to public services
The latest emergency funding for knife crime continues the Government’s crisis-cash-repeat approach to public services.
Four things we learnt from the Spring Statement
The key moments from the Chancellor’s Spring Statement.
Boris Johnson has missed the point about public inquiries
Public inquiries are a vital public resource – providing accountability that protects the public from repeated harmful and costly failures.
The NHS waiting times target review highlights the pressures facing public services
The Government must take its lead from the NHS and make clear the trade-offs that it will have to make with public services.