Sowing the seeds of change

Richard Crouch looks back on the last few years of public sector reform and asks what progress has been made – and where next?

The old adage that you never see change when you are immersed in it often chimes true and I think this is the case in our sector at the moment. This hit home to me only recently when I decided that after five or so years of working in a mess, I would undertake a spot of spring cleaning of my hideaway room at home that I loosely call my office.

Call me untidy, sad or a hoarder but part of my spring clean involved me doing something with all the back copies of The MJ which I've been piling up, and how interesting it was to glance at them once again and review what our thinking had been in 2008 compared to that of the most recent copy I have at hand.

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