Duncan O'Leary
Senior Researcher
Duncan works on projects looking at public services, skills and work.
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- Recyclebank I’ve just come across what looks like a brilliant recycling scheme in the US. It’s called RecycleBank and it works like this:1. Each house gets a recycling container with a barcode on it, that allows the recycling truck to identify what your household in recycling 2. The amount your home recycles is translated into RecycleBank Dollars (paid for by the council through the savings they make on landfill sites) 3. You can spend your RecycleBank dollars at any of the 100 participating... from : duncanoleary 11th July 2006
- Fit for purpose Oh dear. Tony Blair has made a speech saying that people need to adapt their lifestyles if they’re going to be healthy. And apparently he stole the ‘idea’ from David Cameron. from : duncanoleary 26th July 2006
- You heard it here first A while back I wrote a fairly unformed post about the relationship between professionalism and public service reform, suggesting that reformers should learn to draw on what it means to be a professional in Knowsley or in Essex. Well, after some more research and a case study of some facinating work going on in Bexley, i have an aticle in Society Guardian that develops that idea further. from : duncanoleary 20th September 2006