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Recent News
2020 Public Services Trust
A series of explorations of policy emerge from the RSA associated 2020 Public Services Trust
Tuesday 1 June 2010 17:00 by Graham English
The 2020 Public Services Trust has published a series of articles in recent weeks which play into the Fontis agenda. Following a poll report from Ipsos Mori on 'What do people really want, need and expect from Public Services?', the commission, closely associated with the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) has published two reports. The first is 'Delivering a Localist Future', the second 'Citizen Engagement; testing policy ideas for public service reform' is a return to the poll format with commentary.
All three are useful documents dispelling many myths about engagement, and especially that it is neither wanted or feeasible.
To find the reports follow this link Click here
The Fontis Forum
Saturday 29 May 2010 14:02 by Graham English
We are committed to the principle of Fontis supporting a platform for discussion about issues related to involvement and the changes needed in our public services.
So we have created the Fontis Forum. To see it and participate in it you need to sign up on the site, simple as that.
So Register here
And View the Fontis Forum here
Mid Staffs - Fontis letter published in HSJ
Our letter to the HSJ on the Mid-Staffs Francis Report was published on Thursday 11th March
Monday 15 March 2010 21:00 by Graham English
Our letter to the Health Services Journal (HSJ) was published last week (11th March, hard-copy version), albeit in mangled form. It made the argument we have blogged about on here, that the report fails almost entirely to deal with an essential issue at the heart of what happened at Mid-Staffordshire, the breakdown in trust in local services. Instead it focusses on increasing bureacratic, professioanal and regulatory measures which simply fall within the existing mindset.
Click here to see the Blog (1st March 2010).