Public services and financial austerity: getting out of the hole?

The authors suggest that some of the problems of the public sector are self-inflicted and that current policies may only deliver partial success 'at a price we cannot afford'. It proposes a radical alternative and discusses practicalways it could be implemented. It also explores the threats and opportunities that such an approach might face. ROGER LATHAM Visiting Fellow at Nottingham Business School, UK, and the current President of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA). After an early career in the City he worked extensively in the public sector, reaching senior positions as Treasurer and Chief Executive of Nottinghamshire County Council. He was widely regarded as an original and radical thinker on public sector finance issues, and contributed to or chaired a number ofgroups and working parties on reforms to public services. He was also President of the Society of County Treasurers in 2000/1. He continues to research andwrite about public sector issues. . . MALCOLM PROWLE Professor of Business Performance at Nottingham Business School, UK and Visiting Professor at the Open University Business School, UK. He has over forty years experience of publicservices (in the UK and overseas) in central government, local government, health and education. He is a member of CIPFA and has held senior financial management posts in public service organisations and had many years of consultancyexperience with two international consulting firms (KPMG and PWC). He has advised Ministers, Ambassadors, senior civil servants, public service managers and service professionals on a variety of public policy and policy implementation issues and has had several periods of secondment to Whitehall departments ofstate. He has also been financial adviser to a House of Commons Select Committee, adviser to two shadow ministers and a consultant to the World Health Organisation. He has led and participated in many funded research projects on public sector themes, has published six books and numerous research reports and papers in academic and professional journals. INDICE: PART I: ISSUES AND ALTERNATIVES - Introduction - The Challenges Facing UK Public Services - We Are Not Alone.. How Others Have Coped - StrategicBackground - PART II: THE TRADITIONAL MODEL OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ITS PROSPECTS FOR SUCCESSES - The Development of Modern Public Services - The Characteristics of the Current UK Public Services Model - UK Public Services - Attempts at Reform - PART III: RADICAL ALTERNATIVES AND CHARTING THE WAY FORWARD - A NewParadigm - Managing the Change b What are the Implications? - The Wider View- Postscript - References - Bibliography -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29650-3
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 02/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés