Comment – We can work it out, by Paul Raynes

 Comment – We can work it out, by Paul Raynes (PF 29/6/07)

Counter point to this. Tension between devolved models of service provision and Freud’s regional monopoly model. Clients, not financing structures should drive policy. Ultimately regional contractors would use local subcontractors, leading to a top-down bureaucracy. In reality labour markets are local, as are unemployment problems.

Work in progress, by Mark Conrad

Work in progress, by Mark Conrad (PF 17/8/07)

Contract out difficult job-seekers on payment by results basis. NPM style innovation. Jobcentre Plus would only handle short-term routine cases. Specialist cases would be contracted out on regional monopoly ‘mega-contracts’. Regional monopolies can be co-ordinated but are more difficult to manage (what if you don’t get the results you need?) Driven by cost savings – well-capitalised providers vs. tight government budgets, economies of scale.