Sometimes the devil is in the detail. One of the initial reactions to yesterday’s comprehensive spending review concerned the change to make employment and support allowance (ESA) time limited for one year. Tom Clark in the guardian explained the implications…
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In the run up to the Comprehensive Spending Review to be announced at lunchtime, here’s my day yesterday – I am not making it up – which shows just how deeply embedded the public sector is into all aspects of…
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The only way Wales can weather the storm of public spending cuts is by a ‘radical transformation’ of public services in Wales. Simply doing more of the same for less will not be enough, neither will salami-slicing a neat 20…
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As we approach October 20th and the announcements of public expenditure cuts, what feels most depressing is the air of inevitability and resignation that pervades the media and everyday conversations. But we will have to wait a little while beyond…
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Public services and the private sector are not mutually exclusive. It is possible to have both. We are persistently told that Wales has an excessively large public sector, but this is not true. Wales has no more public sector workers…
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