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Theme : publicservices
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Getting to know you
Today we are launching our new discussion paper Making the most of collaboration: an international survey of co-design. It sets out the findings from an international survey of 466 public service practitioners.
You can download the paper here.
from : petebradwell
30th June 2008
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Podcast: Making It Personal
A new year return for the Demos podcast. This time we're talking about the new pamphlet Making It Personal. Just before the launch, at a day-long conference held last Friday, Peter Bradwell spoke to two of the authors, Niamh Gallagher and Jamie Bartlett. With a focus on social care, the pamphlet explores the next stage of a personalising approach to public services: people given an individual budget so they can shape, with the advice of peers, family and professionals, the support they need....
from : petebradwell
21st January 2008
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Web 2.0 and health care
Seminar hosted by Patient Opinion and Demos, chaired by Harry Cayton
from : mollywebb
18th April 2007
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Red herring or a case of divide and rule?
Reorganising a department of state is a nightmare and it can take years to produce results, so why is John Reid announcing such a massive shake up of the Home Office? Could it be because of Ruth Turner or is this a real revolution in home affairs? It is especially confusing given that, according to Whitehall sources, the overarching responsibility for co-ordinating the Government’s counter-terrorist strategy may be given to the Cabinet Office, after a recent security review carried out by Reid.
from : charlieedwards
22nd January 2007
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A public service tipping point
I've spent the last few weeks down under where, among other things, I've been discussing the future of government and launching a new Demos report on the future of New Zealand's public services. It's left me wondering whether we might not be at one of those historic tipping points, when a combination of social trends and interesting new ideas starts to really transform the way public services work. What's next?When you look over the history of the welfare state, it becomes pretty clear that it...
from : simonparker
28th November 2006
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Many eyes make bugs shallow
Ever wanted to help write a Demos report? Me and Niamh are editing a collection called The Collaborative State, which is full of references to how blogs and wikis are going to transform the way the public sector works. So we thought we'd see if they can also transform the way we work. Click here to be transported to our new project wiki, where we'll publish some of the essays and case studies over the next few months.Basically, you can do whatever you want with them, but we hope you'll want to...
from : simonparker
26th October 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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Things can (still) only get better
Did Blair deliver a better society? It's a question that seems very pertinent on the eve of the Labour Party conference, and one that Madeleine and I have had a crack at answering in this week's Public Finance magazine. We argue that Blair achieved a lot, but he failed to make his reforms add up to a vision of a better world. By being too centralist and alienating a lot of his natural constituency, including public service workers, the PM lost the chance to radically reshape the state....
from : simonparker
21st September 2006
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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
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Guardian: Tories admit past mistakes over public service workers
David Cameron's public service improvement policy group will call for a "new partnership with the professions" which acknowledges that the inspection regimes installed since the 1980s have gone too far.
from : duncanoleary
4th September 2006
