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20/03/2003
Public services reform outlined
The government has today set out details of plans to reform and improve local public services.
Speaking at an event to promote the Charter Mark quality standard, the NIO Minister Ian Pearson said: “We need to look at new ways of delivering public services – ways that can deliver greater choice, better standards, better accessibility.”
The Minister said that since last autumn, the government had set up a Strategic Investment Board and reappraised methods to plan and pay capital investment in areas such as hospitals and schools, roads and water.
He added: "We have also put in place measures to drive up standards – standards of treatment in our hospitals; standards of education in our schools and colleges. At a departmental level, we have developed a first set of reform plans with a focus that stretches across the full spectrum of public services – from care in the community to health in the workplace; from standards in schools to the service we provide for job seekers.”
Mr Pearson also said that "reform cannot be about change for the sake of change, it must mean changing for the better".
The Minister also paid tribute to the work begun by the Executive before devolution to reform and improve how public services here are financed and delivered.
(GMcG)
Speaking at an event to promote the Charter Mark quality standard, the NIO Minister Ian Pearson said: “We need to look at new ways of delivering public services – ways that can deliver greater choice, better standards, better accessibility.”
The Minister said that since last autumn, the government had set up a Strategic Investment Board and reappraised methods to plan and pay capital investment in areas such as hospitals and schools, roads and water.
He added: "We have also put in place measures to drive up standards – standards of treatment in our hospitals; standards of education in our schools and colleges. At a departmental level, we have developed a first set of reform plans with a focus that stretches across the full spectrum of public services – from care in the community to health in the workplace; from standards in schools to the service we provide for job seekers.”
Mr Pearson also said that "reform cannot be about change for the sake of change, it must mean changing for the better".
The Minister also paid tribute to the work begun by the Executive before devolution to reform and improve how public services here are financed and delivered.
(GMcG)
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