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Get real about public service business failures

August 1, 2011

Oliver Letwin’s claims about open public services ignore the fact that it will be the public sector picking up the tab for business failures 

Category: Housing | Tags: outsourcing

Mixed up over mutuals

July 21, 2011

The government’s plan to establish public sector mutuals – run by staff – will face a number of difficulties, not least European Union competition rules

Category: Housing | Tags: ALMOs, outsourcing

Competition not so light

July 14, 2011

The prime minister might have toned down the references to competition in launching the Open public services white paper but the direction of travel is clear Ian Mulheirn is worried that the government’s open public services white paper has backed off from introducing full competition.  That’s not the way it looks if you have experience […]

Category: Housing | Tags: outsourcing

How can services be half-privatised?

May 10, 2011

Reading Ian Mulheirn’s blog about the government’s hesitancy in privatising public services, I began to wonder who is being unrealistic here and whether the government really understands what it is now suggesting when it proposes a bigger role for the voluntary sector.  When David Cameron said back in February that he wanted to open up […]

Category: Housing | Tags: outsourcing

Charity cuts: who started them?

March 9, 2011

Eric Pickles’ announcement on 1st March  that councils will be in trouble if their cuts target the voluntary sector started a debate about whether councils are guilty or not.  This is presumably what the Secretary of State wanted when he accused local authorities of being ‘high-minded’, not listening to the sector and failing to give […]

Category: Housing | Tags: migration, outsourcing

Rose-tinted view of markets

March 1, 2011

Ian Mulheirn says in his blog that those who are cautious about the use of market forces in public services are ‘flat-earthers’.  Can I return the friendly insult by asking him to take off his rose-tinted spectacles?

Category: Housing | Tags: outsourcing

Fact and fiction on markets

February 25, 2011

Ian Mulheirn, director of the Social Market Foundation,wrote on the PF Blog this week welcoming the prime minister’s article in the Daily Telegraph . This called for competition to be the norm in public services.  The PM argued that what has prevented decentralisation is that Whitehall wants to hold the purse strings. It should now relinquish them and allow the market to […]

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