A real plan for civil service reform

摘要

Here we go again. The Government's paper, The Civil Service Reform Plan, is the latest in a long series of such documents that have been published since the Fulton Report of 1968. The same themes are re-cooked and radical change never occurs, stymied by ministerial lack-of-interest and civil service resistance. From the perspective of local government little has changed as a result of all those papers, or is likely to now, since they fail to grapple with the main problems of the civil service.