Grand Alibi's - How Privatisation Shortchanges Services
The Centre for Policy Development, has produced a new report entitled Grand Alibis, how declining public sector capability affects services for the disadvantaged, which asks whether "contracting out improved the public sector's capability to address persistent disadvantage and meet complex needs?" The report argues that government’s role in designing and delivering integrated, flexible and holistic human services is more important than ever, but that the capabilities it needs to do so are u