Public Services
We are a long way from getting it right on outsourcing
As the government plans to outsource unprecedented amounts of the NHS the practice seems to be in crisis, with society's most vulnerable the inevitable victims.
Two Labour traditions can come together in social housing
A new Labour project for government must call upon both its major traditions - mutual as well as Fabian - to create an attractive synthesis, writes Kevin Gulliver.
The social care system is at breaking point and needs reform
Age UK, with an alliance of health charities, is calling on all three main party leaders to put aside their political differences and work to reform social care.
Coalition policy is a programme not for social mobility but for social engineering
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, writes about how the coalition's policies are a programme for social engineering - not social mobility.
So who backs Lansley’s health reforms then?
"Some good news" for health secretary Andrew Lansley this morning: another group of people back his NHS reforms... the bankers! This brings the tally to three.
Cameron’s constituency misses out as coalition stops listening on NHS reforms
NHS Oxfordshire, the Primary Care Trust covering David Cameron’s constituency of Witney, told us they have not organised a single listening even.