Clive Barton presentation: an affordable public sector
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An Affordable Public Sector Driving through efficiencies Clive Barton, Group Marketing Director, Serco Member, CBI Public Services Strategy Board
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Presentation discussing the importance of competition, good contracting and new models of financing and delivery in promoting good quality, cost-effective public services.
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An Affordable Public SectorDriving through efficiencies
Clive Barton, Group Marketing Director, Serco
Member, CBI Public Services Strategy Board
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“We urgently need to improve the quality of public services……”
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“The problem is not lazy or incompetent people; it is red tape and regulation so suffocating that they stifle every ounce of creativity. The federal government is filled with good people trapped in bad systems: budget systems, personnel systems, procurement systems, financial management systems, information systems. When we blame the people and impose more controls, we make the systems worse.”
Al Gore
“The academic literature typically found the cost savings from competitive tendering to be between 10 per cent and 30 per cent (including when the in-house team won the bid) with no adverse effect, and sometime and improvement, in service quality.”
The Julius Review, July 2008
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“In my contract, I have more autonomy than I had in the public sector.”
“Managing my contract, I have more freedom to experiment and innovate than I would have as a public sector employee.”
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Government Spending
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% G
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Government spending and tax revenues
spending
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An Affordable Public SectorDriving through efficiencies
Clive Barton, Serco
Public Services Strategy Board
