Publications

What’s the difference between fairness and equality?   Would a capabilities approach provide a means of moving beyond existing disagreement?   Why should we care?   In the first of our discussion papers series, 2020PSH argues that the time is …

Big changes are happening across the spectrum of public services. The Coalition Government, driven by a determination to reform within the context of massive spending cuts, is reshaping the way public services are designed, delivered and accounted for.  All parts …

by Henry Kippin and Ben Lucas The Big Society has so far been predominantly presented as a vision, what it lacks is a strategy. Ends require means. And it is not yet clear what these will be. In particular, if …

Britain’s public services under more pressure than at any time in the past thirty years.  In identifying savings, councils across the country are scrutinising the services they provide and often coming up with similar answers.  As a result, certain services …