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‘UK first’ Health and Social Care (Wales) Bill to receive Royal Assent: the Act will end private profits being made in looked after children’s care. www.carehomeprofessional.com/uk-first-hea...

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NEW report from me and @nehaldavison.bsky.social on school readiness: - Who is most at risk of not being school ready? - What does this mean for the govt's opportunities mission? Is the target for 75% of children to be 'school ready' helpful? 🧵⬇️ www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

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In case you missed it last week - what's new in public services? We dig into the detail in the latest Week in Public Services

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Civil service cuts - a 🧵 with some initial reactions… Civil Service told to slash running costs by 15% www.bbc.com/news/article...

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In need of some weekend reading? Week in Public Services is out! @cassiarowland.bsky.social on purposeful activity in prisons @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social on NHS targets & GP partnerships model And me on address data in public service delivery & what's happened to disadvantaged pupils' funding

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New: I’ve written about the challenges facing the Office for National Statistics and what needs to be done about it Includes some new lines on morale at the ONS based on recent Civil Service People Survey data

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There's a decent case for scrapping NHS England but doing so is a major change programme that will take up substantial ministerial and official time. Hard to see how govt can do this while also making good progress on meeting the 18 week target AND the three shifts ahead of the next election

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I wrote about why Reform is at a turning point in the polls. Whether it gains or loses a few percentage points of support has a massive effect on its seat prospects. Take a look!

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NEW REPORT: almost all prisons have seen skyrocketing rates of violence, protest and self-harm in recent years, but more work & education and more open prisons could turn this around and improve outcomes. 🧵 www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

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Fancy an update on public services? We @instituteforgov.bsky.social wrote a blog👇 @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social worries leadership on NHS reform is lacking @cassiarowland.bsky.social isn't sure about restructuring the courts And the approach to local government finance may be shifting further...

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Are you also stumbling into the new year in a cheese-addled daze? Have you lost track of the govt's reviews, commissions, reforms and plans? Fear not! We've published a new 'Week in Public Services' including a preview of what 2025 has in store for services. Link below: medium.com/week-in-publ...

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Great to see CSW write up my call for Baroness Casey to unilaterally rewrite the remit of her social care comission and publish her final report in 2026 Short 🧵setting out why I think this would give her a much better chance of delivering meaningful change (1/6)

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Hundreds of millions spent by councils placing vulnerable children in illegal children’s homes: new report by the Children’s Commissioner for England www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/blog/press-n...

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NEW POST: 2024 saw a 55% rise in SEND Tribunal appeals. LAs had a 1.3% success rate that cost them £153m. But the cost to families? Incalculable. @CaptainK77 points out what it all means, along with our usual infographics from @TaniaLT www.specialneedsjung...{SOCIAL_NETWORK}&utm_medium=ZM

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1. On a bright November morning, the final tranche of spad data for the Sunak government was released, completing 14 years of Conservative (and coalition) spad data. At @instituteforgov.bsky.social we’ve crunched the numbers – here’s what we found - www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/14-y...

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New - bad - figures have just been published on the schools spending deficits that councils have Seven out of 10 LAs now have a cumulative deficit, with the total across these LAs leaping to £2.1bn (£1.7bn net deficit across all LAs) – largely as a result of SEND spending

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Your favourite blog is out! This time the public services team @instituteforgov.bsky.social have written about: - The Plan for Change - Teacher trainees - The growing remand population - Lots of other interesting things Give it a read 👇 or get the highlights in this🧵

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On Thursday, the govt will publish its Plan for Change. This will include key 'milestones' for each of the govt's five missions. Targets such as these have been used extensively by previous govts trying to improve public service performance. But how effective are targets? A short🧵on the evidence:

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If you want to know how broken the SEND system is, read on: complaints about dominate the local govt ombudsman intray. 90% are upheld yet don’t include complaints from academies (80% of secondaries, 50% of primaries). tinyurl.com/yc73ejtp 🧵1/7

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Week in public services is out! Your favourite definitely-not-weekly blog covering public service policy announcements, papers and publications. Short 🧵 with this week's highlights: medium.com/@cassia_rowl...

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We @nuffieldtrust.bsky.social think the combination of national insurance + wage rises announced in #budget2024 will add ~£2.8bn cost to #socialcare providers next year. That's simply not manageable - and the impact will be felt by people who need care. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Yesterday, there was a major change in the criminal justice system that’s largely sneaked under the radar: the doubling of magistrates’ court sentencing powers. What does that actually mean, and is it good or bad?

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🚨New NHS data out today: the elective waiting list fell by 70k cases in September, to 7.57m That reverses the steady increase over the summer and brings the waiting list back to April levels Other insights from the new release below 👇

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There's been talk again of a royal commission on social care [cue collective groan from policy wonks] Like many I agree a royal commission would be a waste of time. BUT I do think there could be value in an inquiry modelled on the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards Short 🧵below:

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New research from the IFS showing the closure of youth centres during the 2010s was shortsighted. For every £1 saved, the costs to affected users, crime victims and public spending in the police and the criminal justice system amount to £2.85 ifs.org.uk/publications...

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NEW REPORT: What does the budget mean for local government? On the face of it, local government (LG) was a relative winner of the budget. But there are 4 important caveats... 🧵 below www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

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A new @instituteforgov.bsky.social analysis of Labour's first budget finds it should start to address the most serious public service problems but that performance will decline if the govt's reform plans aren't delivered in the spending review 🧵 www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

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