Public Service on the Brink - Manson, Jenny (Andrews UK, 2012)
Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contributors; Jenny Manson: Introduction; Body Matter; Part I: The Civil Service; Mark Serwotka: Saving Public Services; Rodric Braithwaite: Why We Need an Elite Public Service; Part II: The Academic Debate; Ursula Murray: Local Government and the Meaning of Publicness; Oliver Huitson: The Public Private Partnership -- The Privatisation of Governance; Part III: Health and Education; Jonathan C.W. Edwards: The NHS: Health as Wealth; Libby Goldby: Secondary Education
David Wiggins: From a Humanities Perspective -- New Public Management and the UniversitiesPart IV: Facing the Problem of Public Service; Rebekah Carrier: Legal Aid -- A Welfare Service?; Chris Richardson: Britain's Railways; Liz Kessler: Public Service -- Why it is so difficult to ensure that places meet the needs of people, especially in areas of multi-deprivation; Part V: The Public Debate; Dan Carrier: From Heroes to Zeroes -- How the Press report the work of public sector employees; Back Matter; Other Titles Available from Imprint Academic and Andrews UK.
The contributors to this book mount a robust defence of the concept and practice of public service at a crucial time for its future. They question the ill-conceived assumptions behind the endless programmes of reform imposed by successive governments, often on the basis of advice from people with no direct experience of working in the public sector. With cuts in public spending by the coalition government and "austerity" programmes being imposed in Britain and abroad, the book could not be m ..