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The title to this post is a quotation from John F Kennedy and sets the tone for a discussion of the first of the Audit
22nd April 2012
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The title to this post is a quotation from John F Kennedy and sets the tone for a discussion of the first of the Audit
The recent publication of the Audit Commission report: “Local payment by results” is a key landmark in the development of PbR for the commissioning of
Saturday’s newspapers sent shockwaves through all ranks of police officers who are waiting for Tom Winsor’s review of pay and conditions to be published. The
One of the key arguments in favour of a payment by results approach to commissioning is that the focus on outcomes allows for flexibility and
The authors of Freakonomics keep me consistently entertained with their books and Blog posts about the way people, in all walks of life, respond to
Sir Suma Chakrabarti, the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Justice, wrote an interesting essay for @Reformthinktank’s new publication, the Next Ten Years, on targets
There has been growing media coverage of Payment by Results schemes since the New Year, both here and abroad (particularly the USA, Canada and Australia).
“Offenders with drink problems face US-style tagging“ “London’s Drunk Criminals Wear Tags That Track Sobriety“ “Sobriety bracelets’ to fight crime in London” Just a selection
The interesting thing about PbR schemes is that they are supposed to be all about finding creative solutions to entrenched social problems which actually work.
It’s indicative of the high level of interest in payment by results that last night’s seminar at the Academy for Justice Commissioning attracted a full house
What does the future hold for payment by results initiatives in 2012? PbR is fast becoming a key component of the Coalition Government project, generating
A ticking bomb “We only call him the Exploding Boy now, of course; retrospectively. For most of last year he was known only as Ticking
