@charliepickles.bsky.social
Director @re-state.bsky.social; all things State and public services.
@re-state.bsky.socialReposted by @charliepickles.bsky.socialAs covered by the Telegraph this morning, today we have published a new report on how to fix the procurement market, with our own draft of the National Procurement Policy Statement - guidance which the government could issue to change how the public sector buys.
@re-state.bsky.socialReposted by @charliepickles.bsky.socialAs we publish our new draft of the National Procurement Policy Statement, our Director of Strategy @jo3hill.bsky.social has written about the case for our procurement reforms on the Re:State Substack.
@jo3hill.bsky.socialReposted by @charliepickles.bsky.socialI just can't be stopped from writing about how to reform procurement!
But today we've gone one better - we've actually rewritten the statutory guidance (the NPPS) which would make 90% of the important changes the government needs to make. Read about it here.
@jo3hill.bsky.socialReposted by @charliepickles.bsky.socialUnbelievably excited to be publishing this report today, following a lot of thinking on fixing the structural problems in public procurement over the last few months. The £395 billion a year public procurement market makes up c.12% of GDP - it's essential the Government gets this right.
@charliepickles.bsky.socialAll the chat about scrapping the triple lock in order to pay for social care is totally missing the fiscal point
Ofc we need to scrap the triple lock (among other things)... to address the terrifyingly unsustainable fiscal trajectory
Not to spend it elsewhere
restate.substack.com/p/getting-se...
@duncanweldon.bsky.socialReposted by @charliepickles.bsky.social- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s. - at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?
@charliepickles.bsky.socialExactly!
@alwalker.bsky.socialReposted by @charliepickles.bsky.socialReally pleased that today we've published "No Job for the Centre: the case for devolving employment support"! We argue that to be coherent, the devolution of employment support should include the services currently provided by DWP through Jobcentre Plus - and that JCP should be scrapped.
@charliepickles.bsky.socialFor a summary of the paper, read @alwalker.bsky.social excellent substack 👇
@charliepickles.bsky.social& mayors should be incentivised to deliver way more effective services, working with local employers, by allowing them to retain some of the benefit savings generated You can't say you want a devo revolution if you wont dismantle the monoliths of Whitehall
@charliepickles.bsky.socialDWP should also implement an AI-enabled digital employment support platform, targeted at those who are less likely to be at risk of long-term unemployment & a proper triaging process to assess distance from the labour market & complexity of need at the point of claim
@charliepickles.bsky.socialWe call for the the budget & responsibility for supporting the majority of claimants, to be devolved to mayoral strategic authorities. DWP retains benefit administration, sanctioning, data & standards
@charliepickles.bsky.socialIt's time to bite the bullet and scrap JCP
Which is exactly what we're calling for in our new paper out today - 'No Job for the Centre'
@charliepickles.bsky.socialThe PM has already pledged to devolve employment support, DWP itself says JCP is too centralised, just a fraction of employers use it, & too many claimants distrust it Re-branding it by merging it with the Careers Service is a pointless fudge
@charliepickles.bsky.social- NEETS up - incapacity claimants up - proportion of claimants with full work search requirements claiming UC for a year or more up Yes there are lots of drivers, but at the very minimum we need a fit for purpose model of support to help people into available local jobs
@charliepickles.bsky.socialBritain is facing a participation crisis & we're relying on an outdated, distrusted institution to tackle it Times to abolish Jobcentre Plus... 🧵
@alicesemark.bsky.socialReposted by @charliepickles.bsky.socialIt has been an epic week at @re-state.bsky.social towers!
📈On Tuesday, we launched a new welfare workstream with an incredibly compelling substack from Chief Exec @charliepickles.bsky.social on how "we broke the welfare state".
It is well worth a read: restate.substack.com/p/how-we-bro...
@charliepickles.bsky.socialI've been wanting us to write this one for a while... One more sleep! 👀
@re-state.bsky.socialReposted by @charliepickles.bsky.socialOur Chief Executive, Charlotte Pickles @charliepickles.bsky.social, joined @watchinvert.bsky.social to discuss social care and our proposal for a Later Life Care Fund, set out in our report 'Beyond caring'.
@charliepickles.bsky.socialYou can read about all this and more in the fascinating paper from @alicesemark.bsky.social & @coryberman.bsky.social
'Benefitting from abroad: international lessons for reforming sickness and disability benefits' 👇
