How the six 'R's can help meet the job cut targets

摘要

I here are two morsels of received wisdom being chewed over in the debate about the cuts local government needs to make as a contribution to the public deficit reduction.These are, first, that we need to 'cut early, cut once and cut deep', and second, that 'salami-slicing won't work. We need a fundamental change in what we do, as well as the way we do it.'