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Last updated: 08 December 2009
LinksKey examples of the Excellence and fairness approach in Government policy, further resources are available in the key questions for policy makers section.
Department for Children, Schools and Families
The Children's Plan [External website] sets out measures to empower parents and enhance the quality of teaching professionals, for example through new parental rights to regular information on their child's performance and a new Masters level qualification for teachers.
The Children's Plan: One Year On: A progress report [External website] – gives a comprehensive summary of the work done by DSCF and its partners in 2008 and details the approach in 2009 and beyond.
Department of Health
The NHS Next Stage Review [External website] put professionals at the heart of the policy-making process, drawing on the contributions of over 2,000 clinicians and other health and social care professionals. It sets out a vision for empowering patients and families and putting the quality of care at the centre of the NHS.
Communities and Local Government
The Government's White Paper for empowering citizens, Communities in Control [External website], sets out how both central and local government can act more strategically by giving local communities the power to drive real improvements in everything from the way their neighbourhoods are policed to the way that community assets are used.
Home Office
From the Neighbourhood to the National [External website], a Green Paper on policing, contains proposals to empower citizens to hold their local police to account though new elected crime and policing representatives. It also proposes a more strategic role for government, with fewer targets and less red tape at all levels.
Department for Work and Pensions and Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
Raising expectations and increasing support: reforming welfare for the future [External website]
This White Paper, published by the Department for Work and Pensions [External website] in December 2008 confirms the government's intention to create an empowering welfare state by devolving power to individuals and communities, to allow them to design services that fit their needs.
This approach was first laid out in the Green Paper No One Written Off [External website].
Work Skills [External website] complements No One Written Off, setting out how we will integrate welfare services and skills development through a new adult advancement and careers service.
Speeches made by the Prime Minister
The Prime Minister set out the Government’s approach to fairness in June 2008 by highlighting links between education and social mobility [External website] and how individuals and organisations could get involved in driving improvement.
In July 2008 the Prime Minister gave a speech to the Health Service Journal [External website] to mark the 60th Anniversary of the NHS.
In May 2008 the Prime Minister gave a speech on the future of social care [External website].
Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform
Understanding the Public Services Industry: How big, how good, where next? [External website] A recent independent report on the status of the Public Services Inductry by Dr DeAnne Julius CBE.
Department for Children, Schools and Families
Work is ongoing on Children's Workforce Strategy [External website] to support the development of a strategy for development of the Children's Workforce to 2020. Changes being proposed include improving professional development and improving intergration of services and expertise.
Ministry of Justice
Securing the future: Proposals for the efficient and sustainable use of custody in England and Wales (Lord Carter's Review of Prisons) [External website] sets out future plans on the supply of prison places.
Her Majesty's Treasury
Her Majesty's Treasury Operational Efficiency Programme [External website] launched July 2008 sets out a programme for further improving value for money in public services.
Office of the Third Sector
Third sector review, a review of the future role of the third sector in social and economic regeneration. Sets out ways in which the Government will strengthen communities and transform public services.