'Public Services Under Labour - A Symposium & Mid-Term Review'
22 & 23 January 2004 - Weston Conference Centre, UMIST

This conference provided an opportunity for interaction between those involved in academic research into public service reform, and policy makers and practitioners working in this area. It explored different aspects of, and issues surrounding, the reform agenda and examined their implications.

L-R Keith Barnes (GONW), Steve Bundred (Audit Commission), Nick Pearce (IPPR) and Ivan Lewis MP

Presentations included:

• Steve Harrison (University of Manchester) - 'Professionals & Neo-Bureaucracy'
  
  
• Caroline Glendinning (University of York) & Bernard Dowling (University of Manchester) - 'Partnerships: What is the Evidence?'
  
  
• Gerry Stoker (University of Manchester) - 'Engaging with Users' & 'Reform in Action: Local Government'
  
  
• Ben Page (MORI) - 'Delivering Nationally or Locally?'
  
  
• Perri 6 (University of Birmingham) - 'More Like Pizza than Midwifery: Beyond 'Delivery' in Public Services'
  
  
• Rajiv Prabhakar (London School of Economics) - 'Do Public Interest Companies Form a Third Way in Public Services?'
  
  
• Tim Hope (University of Keele) - 'Successful (and not so successful) Burglary Reduction Projects'
  
  
• Ivan Lewis MP - 'Putting Skills in a Wider Context'
  
  
• Alan Dyson (University of Manchester) - 'Education: Something Old, Something New'
  
  

Reform in Action: Crime panel - Professor Tim Hope, Keith Bradley MP & Nick Pearce (IPPR)