Latest Publications

Public service reform has been on the agenda for years. But in the times of plenty, it has lacked the urgency or coherence that today's fiscal situation demands. This paper argues for a market-based approach to public service delivery.

The report's recommendations focus on the appropriate direction of choice-based reforms, the future role of professionals, and the concept of co-production, which seeks to promote greater cooperation between citizens and professionals in the production of public services.

This paper, with a foreword by Gavyn Davies, explores what this changing context will mean for public service broadcasting in the UK some ten years from now.

This report provides an evidence-based analysis of the effects of choice systems in public services. It brings together the research findings from a range of international and domestic studies on the impact of choice on provider schemes.

This report draws on a range of domestic and international evidence, and contributions from across the public sector, to explore and suggest policy solutions to the following potentially problematic areas.

This report outlines the current pattern of co-payment in the UK and debates whether there is a case for introducing or extending co-payment into new areas of public service provision.

This publications sets out the argument for the introduction of 'genre' licences, providing commercial broadcasters with the opportunity to bid for financial support to provide specific public service broadcasting (PSB) programming, specifically news programmes, paid for by 'top-slicing' the BBC licence fee.

In this volume, several junior ministers argue that reform of public services is the natural concomitant of equity and efficiency and set out the direction of future travel.

This report is a thorough examination of the government's use of targets in four public services: education, health, housing and the criminal justice system.