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Type |
Title |
Summary |
26/02/2010
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Foreword |
Foreword |
Facing up to the NHS challenge...more |
25/02/2010
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Health and Social Care |
Patients will set the agenda |
The NHS is giving people more control over their own health and a greater say on how services are provided...more |
25/02/2010
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Local Government |
Policy Tracker |
Total Place: the testing ground for joined-up government...more |
25/02/2010
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Local Government |
Local blueprint ready to go |
The leaders of Kent and other Tory councils could offer David Cameron much-needed drive and experience in government...more |
25/02/2010
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Health and Social Care |
Unfinished business on health |
Bill Moyes says there should be more foundation hospitals but reforms should also cover primary care trusts and GPs ...more |
24/02/2010
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Health and Social Care |
Conservatives value equality as well as quality in the NHS |
Hospitals will have to match cost of cheapest operations...more |
20/02/2010
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Business |
Watch the funding gap |
Regional funding schemes can boost small businesses and deliver value when they are run on commercial principles...more |
20/02/2010
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Education and Skills |
Forward to the 19th century… |
The Conservatives’ determination to return to traditional subjects ignores the pupils who need a different diet ...more |
20/02/2010
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Environment |
Scotland’s badge of honour |
Alex Salmond 's party has set ambitious targets for reducing carbon emissions. But how will they be met?...more |
20/02/2010
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Health and Social Care |
United in mismanagement |
Plans to restrict private enterprise and charities from future bids for NHS services has left confusion in both sectors...more |
25/01/2010
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Higher Education |
Review can lead to stable funding |
Tories promise fairer deal for part-timers, better careers advice and more information to guide student choice...more |
25/01/2010
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Foreword |
Foreword |
Will universities be brought to their knees?...more |
24/01/2010
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Higher Education |
Hopes of the man in the middle |
Sir Alan Langlands will need all his authority to keep universities on track as the money dries up...more |
23/01/2010
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Higher Education |
Universities must rely less on the state as purse-strings tighten |
Minister says cuts are manageable with greater diversity...more |
23/01/2010
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Education and Skills |
Policy Tracker: information, advice and guidance |
...more |
19/01/2010
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Local Government |
Rural areas deserve a new deal |
The countryside is not just a retreat for the rich and elderly, but a vital and neglected part of the economy...more |
19/01/2010
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Equality |
Within reach of the glass ceiling |
More women are in senior positions, but they need networks to reach the very top in public policy...more |
19/01/2010
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Home Affairs |
Cuts with criminal consequences |
The police say a Royal Commission is needed to determine the full extent of their responsibilities...more |
19/01/2010
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Social Policy |
Prevent: still a work in progress |
We must persevere with community approaches to tackling violent extremism, however long it takes...more |
19/01/2010
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Higher Education |
Private revolution on the way |
UK universities face growing competition from for-profit institutions, as they do already elsewhere in the world...more |
19/01/2010
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Higher Education |
Mixed messages for universities |
The tide of history may sweep away the short-termism that distorts today's higher education system...more |
10/12/2009
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Employment |
Give credit where it's due |
Benefits must be overhauled and simplified. Only then will work be seen as the most sustainable route out of poverty...more |
10/12/2009
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Schools |
Planning is key to schools reform |
Tories know that some of the most serious obstacles to their education proposals will have nothing to do with teaching...more |
10/12/2009
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Environment |
Carbon cuts will hit public sector |
New energy efficiency scheme may penalise the very organisations that have led the way in cutting emissions...more |
10/12/2009
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Social Policy |
This time we must guarantee to stave off worklessness |
Promise of jobs for young people does not go far enough...more |
10/12/2009
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Foreword |
Foreword |
...more |
09/12/2009
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Education and Skills |
Russell to the rescue |
Scotland's new Education Secretary may revive discussions too long stymied by scraps over class sizes and teacher numbers ...more |
09/12/2009
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Employment |
The solution is already here |
Prepaid cards are the answer to Iain Duncan Smith’s plea for a simpler, more efficient and dynamic benefits system...more |
08/12/2009
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Health and Social Care |
An unhealthy set of ratings |
What’s the best way to measure a hospital’s performance? For starters, don’t rely on what it tells you…...more |
08/12/2009
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Local Government |
All roads eventually lead to staff |
Councils may be set on efficiency measures, but any savings will come from one main source: eliminating jobs...more |
08/12/2009
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Employment |
Partnerships pay dividends |
Minister urges local authorities to step up their efforts to prevent a 'lost generation' suffering long-term unemployment...more |
11/11/2009
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Foreword |
Foreword |
...more |
10/11/2009
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Higher Education |
Policy Tracker |
Higher education framework and fees review...more |
09/11/2009
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Home Affairs |
Intrusive, expensive, ineffective: that's Labour's surveillance state |
Tories promise to step back from the Big Brother society ...more |
09/11/2009
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Home Affairs |
Blunkett says SOCA must get real |
Former Home Secretary joins the critics of the agency he established to fight serious and organised crime...more |
09/11/2009
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Home Affairs |
Rocky start for the policing pledge |
Are chief constables fighting a losing battle in their attempts to regain the confidence of the public?...more |
09/11/2009
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Home Affairs |
Alcohol price hike may miss target |
Policy-makers should not rely on rational decision-making to curb excess drinking among vulnerable young people...more |
09/11/2009
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Education and Skills |
Invest in the wisdom of customers |
Individuals and employers should be given more opportunity to shape a simplified skills agenda...more |
09/11/2009
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Schools |
Politics may stifle primary reform |
Rival reports champion breadth and creativity - but will anything change in the classroom?...more |
09/11/2009
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Social Policy |
Should services be conditional? |
Spending cuts will bring pressure to link responsible behaviour with entitlement to public services...more |
08/11/2009
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Local Government |
Fears of a lost decade of growth |
The extended impact of recession will force local authorities to find new ways to deliver their services...more |
06/10/2009
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Higher Education |
McClaran steps into minefield |
New QAA chief executive must deliver on openness as well as safeguarding quality in universities and colleges...more |
06/10/2009
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Foreword |
Foreword |
Are the Tories being too timid?...more |
05/10/2009
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The Economy |
Middle-class welfare must go |
Spending pledges have been scaled down, but the Conservatives will have to find bigger savings...more |
05/10/2009
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Central Government |
Can Cameron restore trust in institutions - and in each other? |
Blair's biographer calls for an end to our culture of suspicion...more |
05/10/2009
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Education and Skills |
Skills future is sectoral |
As recession bites, employers in the UK are crying out for a clearer, more customer-focused system of training...more |
05/10/2009
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Central Government |
Policy tracker |
What next on Westminster reforms?...more |
04/10/2009
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Local Government |
Total Place can win over sceptics |
Council tax payers will be shocked to learn how many different agencies may be delivering the same service...more |
04/10/2009
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Health and Social Care |
Is the NHS really untouchble? |
New providers must be allowed to bring in fresh, disruptive ideas to improve health provision...more |
04/10/2009
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General |
Spin or the bedrock of policy? |
A new pressure group is trying to stem the abuse of statistics that has become a feature of modern government...more |
03/10/2009
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General |
Benefits reform is key to success |
Individual accounts could help the Treasury balance the books and get more people into employment...more |
03/10/2009
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Schools |
Gove's plans need spur of profit |
The Tories know what they want to do about state schools, but will they have the nerve to make it work?...more |
11/09/2009
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Feature Articles |
Are you a 3rd Generation Quango? |
...more |
09/09/2009
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Feature Articles |
Reaching decision makers |
...more |
09/09/2009
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General |
Who are Policy Review Intelligence? |
...more |
08/09/2009
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General |
In this month's Policy Tracker... |
...more |
08/09/2009
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Local Government |
Savings start with the individual |
Billions of pounds are wasted each year because public servants do not fully understand their roles...more |
08/09/2009
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Home Affairs |
Immigration and citizenship |
...more |
08/09/2009
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Criminal Justice |
Crime and Policing |
...more |
08/09/2009
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Local Government |
Affordable Housing |
...more |
08/09/2009
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Local Government |
Investing in Young People |
...more |
08/09/2009
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Education and Skills |
More power for parents |
...more |
08/09/2009
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Education and Skills |
Jobs and Skills |
...more |
08/09/2009
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Health and Social Care |
Patients |
...more |
08/09/2009
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Children |
Early Years |
...more |
07/09/2009
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Foreword |
Policy Review Magazine... ONLINE |
How will we manage when the cuts come? ...more |
06/09/2009
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Home Affairs |
Jury still out for victims of crime |
Confidence in the justice system remains patchy, as cash to implement government plans begins to dry up...more |
06/09/2009
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Education and Skills |
Bumpy ride for a political animal |
Steve Smith faces multiple challenges as he takes on the presidency of Universities UK...more |
05/09/2009
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General |
'Big ticket' projects must go if we mean what we say about spending |
Labour should drop Trident and airport expansion to limit tax increases and cuts in public services...more |
05/09/2009
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The Economy |
The right cuts can boost services |
A step-by step guide to minimising the damage that will be caused by the coming decline in public expenditure...more |
05/09/2009
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Local Government |
Would the Tories trust councils? |
David Cameron's commitments to localism are ambiguous - and likely to remain so until after the general election...more |
03/09/2009
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Health and Social Care |
Time for action on the superbug |
Media obsession with swine flu must not blind ministers to the renewed threat of MRSA in hospitals and communities...more |
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