NEW REPORT: By 2028, almost all public services will still be performing worse than pre-pandemic, which in most cases was already worse than in 2010 when the Conservatives came to power
Without a sustained change in approach, public services risk getting stuck in a doom loop
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Public services that have for years been creaking are now crumbling, literally in some cases
Whether it's record waiting lists and times, ongoing industrial action, council 'bankruptcies', or overflowing prisons, services across the country are in a woefull state
Public service performance problems are systemic, with problems in one service feeding into others. Such interrelated difficulties are most obvious in the health and care, criminal justice and local govt systems. But there are also critical interdependencies between these systems
NEW REPORT: By 2025, public services won’t have returned to pre-pandemic performance, which in most cases was already worse than in 2010 when the Conservatives came to power
This is the 7th edition of Performance Tracker and unfortunately our findings have never been so grim
Patients are waiting half a day in A&E and a year or more for elective treatments. Social care providers are going out of business. Few crimes result in charges, criminal courts are gummed up, and pupils have lost months of learning, with little prospect of catching up