Debating the reform of public services

Whilst waiting for Tony to reply in the online debate about public service reform, I haven’t forgotten accepting a challenge from a more serious Labour blogger to post a more considered piece on the case for public services to be provided in the public sector – although I haven’t got round to it yet.

Whilst reading though I did find this interesting piece of research. Since it is over a megabyte and 85 pages I am going to have to take some time to look at it, but what is interesting in this European research is that it deals precisely with the question of innovation in the delivery of services which is what public service “reform” ought to be about. Obviously slightly weird and much weirder Europhobes won’t want to be reading it…