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Theme : localism
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'Elect the inspectors' by John Denham | Prospect Magazine August 2007 issue 137
John Denham argues:
'We need to marry the inspectocracy with democracy...Let's give people we choose the power to decide what the targets and standards should be. And the power to intervene and require a response, to dirty hospitals or coasting schools. Where there are choices to be made between different priorities, and where there is a debate about the standards to be set, let's elect the people we want to make them'
from : duncanoleary
14th August 2007
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Brown's aspirations aren't those of Thatcher | Dt Opinion | Opinion | Telegraph
Janet Daly writes:
'No one can realise his ambitions or be successfully self-reliant without a public system of shared values. Private life is never utterly private.
So far, so unexceptionable.
But what does this mean for the mechanisms of everyday existence? The real question is, who will draw the line between the public good and private desire? Who decides what the limits are on personal fulfilment vs the common purpose? Is it central government, local institutions or the community? '
from : duncanoleary
18th June 2007
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Local professionalism
I’ve been doing a bit of reading for a new project that we are starting with the IDeA, looking at how efforts in local authorities to re-orient services around the needs of users are disrupting professional boundaries, roles and status, and am struck by the suggestion that John Craig makes in Production Values that we may be witnessing the birth of local professionalism.
from : duncanoleary
2nd August 2006
