The merits and limitations of coproduction

 I’m always interested to read what David Boyle has to say.  He is the co-author of a recent report published jointly by the New Economics Foundation and NESTA.  The report puts forward co-production as the best, most cost effective way of improving public services. Boyle and his co author, Michael Harris, argue that by focusing [...]

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Front line, schmont line

First there was Demos’ Time to put trust back in the front line of public service.  Then came the Localis/KPMG report, The Bottom Line – a vision for local government, Reform’s The Front Line and last week we had the Government’s Putting the front line first. The ‘front line’ is of course a term that comes from [...]

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Expressive Lives

August is a good time to catch-up on some of those reports that have been languishing in the reading tray.  I’ve been dipping into Expressive Lives, a Demos collection of essays exploring the changing nature of cultural engagement. In his essay, David Lammy MP, argues that technological and social changes are making the ‘expressive life’ [...]

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