By Keith Ruddle The pressure to rethink how we ‘do leadership’ across the diverse and complex public sector with its 25,000 organisations and 5 million people is as strong as it ever was. What is changing and bringing leadership into sharper relief is the increasing pace of change. This means that there is a need to rethink our model of leadership in organisations to address the key challenges in reinventing public service leadership in the next few years.

The majority of public sector bodies want voluntary groups to deliver more public services, according to a new survey. But the study by Futurebuilders showed that in most cases partnership working was not possible because of budget constraints.Futurebuilders, a 125 million pound Home Office backed investment fund run by a voluntary and community sector consortium, questioned local authorities, National Health Service Trusts and social services departments. It found that 80 per cent of them believed that voluntary and community groups could offer more public services and that they were better equipped to help some hard-to-reach groups.

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An average couple bringing up children together are only a pound a week better off than a lone parent but could get a big increase in income from the state if they split up, according to a report published today.In “The Price of Parenthood”, from the centre for Policy Studies, Jill Kirby calls for an end to bias against the two-parent family and says Britain could learn from recent welfare reforms in the United States.

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