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Jamie Bartlett

Opinion: Our public services are overburdened with pointless regulation

By Jamie Bartlett | Tue 13th October 2009 - 10:20 am

It is well acknowledged that our public services are overburdened with pointless and counter productive regulation, that there is too much wastage and bureaucracy which stops police officers, teachers and social workers getting on with the job, and front line staff are treated like teenagers who can’t be trusted. Much of the blame lies with obsessive control driven from Whitehall.

Every party – indeed every party for the last 30 years – has promised to remedy this by slashing bureaucracy and “re-empowering” the front line, but none have succeeded. Tony Blair made it a key priority, but made matters worse. The …

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