ResPublica

The future of the public sector

by Paul David Evans 0

ResPublica should give the entire public sector food for thought

Just occasionally, think tanks give us a flavour of the future — and ResPublica should give the entire public sector food for thought.

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'John Lewis' policies are in store

by Adam Schoenborn 1

Labour have joined the Tories in advocating a partnership model for public services.

When our office learned of shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley's largely overlooked announcement at the NHS employers conference in Birmingham last week, a big cheer went up. According to Lansley, under a Conservative government, healthcare providers would be restructured locally along the lines of a John Lewis-style partnership model, giving staff collective ownership of the service they delivered.

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ResPublica mentioned in Cameron's speech

by David Cameron 0

David Cameron: The Big Society

In the words of Phillip Blond, director of ResPublica: "the state ... has dispossessed the people and amassed all power to itself ... This centralisation of power has made people passive when they should be active and cynical when they should be idealistic. This attitude only makes things worse - the more people think they can't make a difference, the more they opt out from society."

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ResPublica work on a variety of cutting edge research projects, such as examining how the UK can develop more innovative public services by empowering front-line professionals and their client communities and how a fresh focus on creating a new economic infrastructure for local economies will place local communities at the forefront of innovation and economic growth.

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