This week: spending review timings; rethinking GP access; and local election watch
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You can’t move these days without someone speculating when the general election’s going to be. But you hear less…
After a short hiatus, I’d like to welcome all readers back to the Week in Public Services. I hope we can be forgiven for our absence and offer up this year’s Performance Tracker as both an excuse and penance. There’s a lot to cover from the last few…
This week: Spending Review fallout; ongoing exam debate; and what we can learn…
This week: all eyes on the spending review; the impact of lockdowns on school attendance; and more vaccine news.
This week: government concessions to reality; working out what to do for 2021 exams; and busting ageing population myths
This week: (missed) NHS targets; falling prison assaults; and five predictions…
This week: the fallout from last week’s Spending Round; Sir Michael Barber tackles the police; demand management vs rationing in the NHS
This week: the results of Rory Stewart’s prisons experiment; increases in local government reserves; and private equity in foster care
This week: the new Government; more police officers; and the school ‘disadvantage gap’
New Government; new ministers. I’m not going to add to the reams of commentary about what the makeup of the…