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There's scope for massive improvement in giving children the very best life chances
How are measures working in your school to close the gap and make school a life-enhancing experience for the ones who usually get left behind? David Allaby wants to know
Coalition falls short with energy saving plans
Without managing energy performance in existing commercial buildings, the government is going to be pushed to meet tough carbon emission targets, writes Liz Peace, chief executive of the British Property Federation
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How are measures working in your school to close the gap and make school a life-enhancing experience for the ones who usually get left behind? David Allaby wants to know
Coalition falls short with energy saving plans
Without managing energy performance in existing commercial buildings, the government is going to be pushed to meet tough carbon emission targets, writes Liz Peace, chief executive of the British Property Federation
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LATEST PUBLIC SECTOR FEATURES
Inspection – bureaucratic burden or force for improvement?
It is casual and lazy to think 'inspection' and 'bureaucracy' are just different words for the same thing, said Ofsted's deputy chief inspector John Goldup at the inspectorate's first annual social care lecture
Back to the future for NHS
With health unions implacable in their opposition to Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms, Calum Paton, professor of public policy at Keele University, suggests the government has yet to find any way forward – other than by rehashing old ideas
Managing gay men – is it different?
The recently published top 100 gay friendly organisations contained a number from the public sector. But more openness about sexuality presents mangers with new challenges. Blair McPherson asks if rules about behaviour are different for gay workers
Police forces are ''rising to the spending challenge''
Police forces are improving services and still making significant savings, the policing minister Nick Herbert said, claiming that a transformation in police ways of working was well underway. Here's the full speech
A force to be reckoned with in our schools
Problem pupils can blossom with a bit of support and attention from specialist instructors, many of whom have military experience, says Peter Cross of SkillForce
Command and control: it just won't work anymore
The world of work is evolving more quickly than ever and things are never going to return to how they were, says Ben Moss, who warns that managers need to convince their teams and peers that change an deliver more effective and efficient service delivery
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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO NOAM CHOMSKY
Can man's ingenuity and modern technology solve the problems relating to natural resources shortages – is a modern Utopia possible?
The UK is opening up national health services to the market and actively seeking out American healthcare firms as potential service providers. Is this a good idea, when the system in the United States fails to care for some many millions of people without adequate medical insurance?
The EU summits have achieved very little in terms of radical solutions to tackle the eurozone crisis. Does the crisis help to make the case for a United States of Europe? If further and deeper integration is not what the future holds for Europe, then what is the alternative? And how can Europe resolve the current economic crisis?
Who will win the US presidential race?
All these questions are asked of – and answered by – Professor Noam Chomsky in the second of two major interviews with PublicServiceEurope.com editor Dean Carroll
Read it here.
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FAIRNESS AND THE MORAL ECONOMY? SET THE PEOPLE FREE
A strange bout of consensus has broken out across the political spectrum. Party leaders are jostling for headlines with speeches about the "moral economy", "fairness" and building a more responsible form of capitalism. Models of public service delivery also face increasing pressures and scrutiny. The issues are examined from different perspectives in the February edition of Public Servant.Business Secretary Vince Cable calls for an early amnesty on fairness; Jonathon Porritt accuses the Treasury of undermining sustainable growth and he seeks a lead outside government; and Tristram Hunt makes an impassioned plea to harness the power of the people for real innovation, efficiency and a moral economy.
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