Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Let’s run this one up the flagpole and see who salutes. The business world has its own approaches to trying out new ideas, and its own distinctive idioms for doing so. Public services pride themselves on more considered, scientific ways of establishing what works when it comes to spending the taxpayer pound.
But as the most ambitious benefit reform of the modern era gets the go-ahead after only limited piloting, it’s worth asking if such pride is really justified.
Universal credit is this week starting to be extended nationally after what ministers describe as “remarkable” results in pilot areas. Read the small print of the evaluations, though, and you’ll find heavy qualification such as “interim findings”, “useful insights” and “this analysis only considers the impact on new claims during the very early stages of the policy process in a small number of offices”. There’s a clear sense of backsides being covered.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...new-models-of-care-no-piloting-early-adopters
But as the most ambitious benefit reform of the modern era gets the go-ahead after only limited piloting, it’s worth asking if such pride is really justified.
Universal credit is this week starting to be extended nationally after what ministers describe as “remarkable” results in pilot areas. Read the small print of the evaluations, though, and you’ll find heavy qualification such as “interim findings”, “useful insights” and “this analysis only considers the impact on new claims during the very early stages of the policy process in a small number of offices”. There’s a clear sense of backsides being covered.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...new-models-of-care-no-piloting-early-adopters