The Birmingham Brief - intelligent thought on policy issues.
- Description
- In 2010, the former Prime Minister published a review of adult social care in which the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) argued that the system was fundamentally broken. A year on and very little has changed to alter our pessimistic assessment. Indeed in recent weeks, this diagnosis has been reconfirmed by a number of inter-related developments, including:
- Date:
- Friday 15th July 2011
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- The much-touted phrase 'from nanny to nudge' symbolises the Coalition Government's aspirations to find new ways to shape the habits and attitudes of good citizenship and to spread them more widely. Policy makers hope to change our expectations of what local and national government should provide, our ideas about who might provide them, and our commitment to changing our own and others' behaviours in all areas of our lives.
- Date:
- Friday 15th July 2011
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences
- Description
- With thousands of public sector workers striking this week and the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister both speaking at the Local Government Conference in Birmingham the future of public services has rarely seemed a more divisive or topical issue.
- Date:
- Thursday 14th July 2011
- Categories:
- Research, Social Sciences