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A cottage industry has sprung up seeking silver linings in the cuts being dealt with by councils, public sector bodies, government agencies and the groups who have come to depend on state funding.
Many of those seeking to benefi t from the changed environment in the public sector are private com- panies with expertise in providing services to organisations facing sudden and unwelcome change – from outsourcers and consultants to those with ‘solutions’ to cut the costs of printing, managing data, managing people, running facili- ties, and so on.
Average circulation for the period 1/8/09 – 31/12/09 is 7,041 per issue
But, callous as it seems to say when people are losing their jobs and valuable community projects are going belly up, the cuts have forced some exciting changes on the public sector. There are some managers reading this who have been energised by the creative thinking that the cuts situation has forced them into, and intrigued by the possibilities of, for exam- ple, shared services, co-operative models of service provision, merg- ing libraries with resident-facing council customer services, and just doing things differently.
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Decisions for tomorrow made today
Effi ciencies are seen by some as a euphemism for cuts, job losses, and overstretched workers tak- ing on more and more work. But, sometimes, effi ciencies are just that – in a few years’ time, even if the economic and political situa- tion changes and funding rockets back up, few councils will go back to working in exactly the way they were in 2009. Private sector busi- nesses forced to become leaner and sharper operators to survive the recession have already been fi nding this out for themselves.
The wider economic question re- mains unsettled; even those who accept the need for drastic and front-loaded cuts cannot guar- antee that the private sector can step up and produce the growth required to create jobs, keep infl a- tion manageable, and reduce the defi cit at the necessary speed. Even Chancellor George Osborne’s friends acknowledge that we’re in the middle of a vast gamble – but they say the alternatives would have been fi nancial meltdown and humiliating bailout.
Public sector workers are more likely than the general population to reject this argument, and they marched in their hundreds of thou- sands through London at the end of March to make their feelings clear. Public rallies and demonstrations do not have a good track record at getting governments, and this gov- ernment in particular, to change tack. The Coalition’s U-turns and slow-downs on issues like school sports, NHS reform, forestry sell- offs and EMA have happened more due to political and civic society and expert dissatisfaction than because of marchers in the streets. Conversely, some of the most high-profi le demonstrations of the past decade, over Iraq, the G20 in 2009 and tuition fees last year hardly changed our leaders’ minds on the war, global fi nance or higher education funding.
The defi cit reduction strategy is right at the heart of this govern- ment’s plan for offi ce, for good or ill. It would take something truly calamitous for it to change course now; even its fi ercest critics can- not be wishing for that.
Adam Hewitt Commissioning / Deputy Editor national health executive Mar/Apr 11 | 3
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