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Published: 14 November 2012
This paper makes 11 recommendations for Police and Crime Commissioner candidate selection.
The recommendations aim to widen the pool of candidates, ensure that more diverse and higher quality candidates are selected, and build transparency and wider public involvement into party selection... more
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Publication
Published: 11 September 2011
The guide builds on recent developments: the Institute for Government's report 'Read Before Burning' which recommended that ALBs publish information on their status and operations in a standardised format online, in turn improving the transparency of their organisations; the Public Chairs' Forum'... more
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Publication
Published: 31 August 2011
The Institute for Government has consulted widely on the mayoral model proposed in the Localism Bill. We engaged in conversation with stakeholders and experts through:
Visiting the 11 cities that will be holding a referendum on the mayoral model in 2012. We talked to business leaders, local... more
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Publication
Published: 31 August 2011
Making the Most of Mayors recommends that:
Mayors should concentrate on developing relationships that will help them to make the most of their "soft" powers, including influencing investment decisions and education and training
They should have a veto over the appointment of the chief executive of... more
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Publication
Published: 31 July 2011
In this letter, Lord Adonis presses for the office of elected mayor to be given greater powers over matters including planning and policing before referenda take place in 11 English cities.
He says that this will be an important factor in persuading people to vote for the new governance model. In... more
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Publication
Published: 11 July 2011
The Institute for Government asked Kate Jenkins, author of the original report, to take a look at the agency model twenty years on and at what the Government needs to do now to make the most of the agency model.
Her conclusions are set out in a new Inside Out publication ‘Unfinished Business:... more
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Publication
Published: 11 July 2011
The Prime Minister has set out a cross-governmental vision for the improvement of public services with the launch of the Open Public Services White Paper. The paper brings together and reinforces the reform themes that have already been developed within individual departmental plans and the wider... more
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Publication
Published: 14 June 2011
Institute for Government and Centre for Cities joint report that sets out how the mayoral model has the potential to overcome some of the barriers to growth that cities face.
'Big Shot or Long Shot?' urges the government to:
devolve more powers to mayors through the Localism Bill
give... more
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Publication
Published: 08 April 2011
The accountability of ministers to parliament is an established, ambiguous concept in British governance. Our report focuses on how ministerial accountability will affect the government's plans to decentralise public services, looking at:
recent cases of decentralisation - e.g. NHS foundation... more
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