Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Back to school
Am I the only one who is disturbd by this report in today's Telegraph senior civil servants are being sent to “leadership school” amid concerns they do not have the skills to run major projects like the Olympics, welfare reforms and new high-speed trains.
The paper says that the new system is an effort to avoid debacles like wasted public spending on a £12 billion NHS computing system that never worked. From October, senior civil servants, including permanent secretaries and director-generals, will have to obtain qualifications from the academy before they are allowed to be in charge of major projects.
It is not that we have not known about these shortcomings, just that it has taken so long to do something about them.
The paper says that the new system is an effort to avoid debacles like wasted public spending on a £12 billion NHS computing system that never worked. From October, senior civil servants, including permanent secretaries and director-generals, will have to obtain qualifications from the academy before they are allowed to be in charge of major projects.
It is not that we have not known about these shortcomings, just that it has taken so long to do something about them.
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"It is not that we have not known about these shortcomings, just that it has taken so long to do something about them."
Frankly the way the Welsh Assembly works means there are also grave shortcomings in the way the Welsh Government ‘works’ or rather does not work.
With such a small pool of candidates to pick from the Welsh Government is inevitably packed with some very strange picks. There was the Minister responsible for farming who didn’t’ eat meat; a Minister without good grounding in science in charge of innovation; a Minister in charge of business who has never run a small business.
It is no wonder that Wales has the lowest GVA rating in the nation. After 10+ years of Welsh Government there is no sign that the WG has a clue about changing the fortunes of Wales and hence the Welsh people.
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Frankly the way the Welsh Assembly works means there are also grave shortcomings in the way the Welsh Government ‘works’ or rather does not work.
With such a small pool of candidates to pick from the Welsh Government is inevitably packed with some very strange picks. There was the Minister responsible for farming who didn’t’ eat meat; a Minister without good grounding in science in charge of innovation; a Minister in charge of business who has never run a small business.
It is no wonder that Wales has the lowest GVA rating in the nation. After 10+ years of Welsh Government there is no sign that the WG has a clue about changing the fortunes of Wales and hence the Welsh people.
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