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Skills, innovation and Ben Bradshaw
So we're all back from Bournemouth and if I'm honest, most of the office looks a little bleary eyed, myself included. I've spent the last few days reading the political commentary about the conference, but being a wonk I was really interested in what it all means for policy. So here's what I learned in my three days beside the seaside...
from : simonparker
27th September 2007
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Demos | Confronting the Skills Paradox | Themes | labour_markets
Options for Excellence: DoH and DfES Review of Social care workforce - relevent to chidrens services.
from : kateoakley
1st November 2006
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Fringe focus
So I've just got back from this year's Labour Party conference to find Jenni Russell's piece in Comment Is Free. Talking about the masterclass in holistic policy making (catchy title, no?) we co-hosted with the new economics foundation and ACCA, she argues that the fringe is where the real action lies, rather than the Today programme-esque obsession with intrigue and leadership debates. I'm inclined to agree. I admit I went up to conference suspicious that it would feel a bit like a circus for...
from : sophiaparker
28th September 2006
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Who'd win a fight between a Fabian and a social entrepreneur?
The public service battle lines are being drawn... by Charles Clarke of all people. Apparently the real battle in the Labour party is between 'traditional Fabians' and 'social entrepreneurs'. The former still believe the central state is the best way of securing equity and improving lives. The latter think that local freedom and engagement are the better route.Clarke was obviously playing politics with his lecture yesterday - the example he gives of Fabian reform is the working families tax...
from : simonparker
6th September 2006
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1997 and all that
Not that I'm addicted to the net or anything, but I read Tom's valedictory Guardian piece at home last night on the mighty Comment is Free. What strikes me most about this site is the way it's become a home for people who REALLY hate Blair's Labour. The problem with that attitude, as with the general liberal melancholia about Blair, is that it tends to manifest itself in a generalised sense of failure. Not only has Labour failed to live up to its promise, and not only has it made some awful...
from : simonparker
8th August 2006
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Happy families? The domestic politics of parenting
Speakers:
Rt. Hon. Beverly Hughes MP, Minister of State for Children, Young People and Families
Rt. Hon. Alan Milburn MP
Jenny Watson, Chair, Equal Opportunities Commission
Hannah Green, Author ‘The Other Glass Ceiling’, Demos
Chair: Madeleine Bunting, Director, Demos
from : mollywebb
2nd August 2006
