Civil service time warp - Promises of reform not acceptable
Maybe it’s because we want to believe that promises, made in this time of desperation, will be kept unlike those so freely offered to secure benchmarking.
Certainly, we want to believe that the dangerous divisions between public and private sectors might be bridged if we all had improved services. Most certainly we want to believe — and hope — that the potential of the public service might be realised by modernisation.