Contents
PublicFinance
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COVER STORY
Shadow education
secretary Michael
Gove tells PF about
free schools and
traditional teaching
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Sharing the load: practical
ways to make care funding fairer
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A plug for partnerships: cutting
energy costs through collaboration
REGULARS 19 COMMENT
Joined-up government can be
4 LEADER achieved, says the Institute for
Novel education ideas Government’s Simon Parker
5 OPINION FEATURES
Peter Riddell on the Conservative
quest for smaller government 20 COVER STORY: BLUE SCHOOL
THINKING
6 NEWS Many of the Tories’ proposals for
Audit Commission slates councils for education are extensions of Labour
making decisions without information; policies, argues Conor Ryan. But
why civil servants lack confi dence; there are a few radical diff erences
Defra spent £570m on consultants; and some, like the approach to free
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Smaller but perfectly formed: NHS trusts look to transfer services; schools, could end in tears
the Tories’ wish list for Whitehall MPs demand action to alleviate
pensioner poverty; Cooper launches 24 TAKING GOOD CARE
FRONT COVER: Pete Ellis £1bn jobs scheme; call for social Th e green paper on social care funding
work training reform; councils set for has started to tackle this urgent
new cutbacks; LGA seeks HRA debt problem but the results won’t be felt
solution; new blow to college building for years. Short-term measures need
to be taken now, says Sue Collins
17 COMMENT
Susie Owen from the Offi ce of 28 EVENTS
Government Commerce suggests ways Courses, seminars and conferences
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