links for 2011-04-04

Excellent article from Andrew Adonis on public service entrepreneurs.

Martin Bright with a thoughtful and accurate piece of the Single Work Programme and its heady - and unlikely - aspirations concerning the Big Society in practice.

Of course they're not.

Hopeful at best, I'd say.

The placeholder for the outcomes framework itself. An important publication.

"A new approach to quality and outcomes in adult social care was launched today with the publication of the first Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework." Important.

Text of the speech from Keir Starmer at the University of Sussex.

Important speech from Keir Starmer, and good that he maintains focus on this most vital of issues.