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Live Blog! Day Two, Guardian Public Services Summit

Getting through but getting better. Day Two of the Guardian's public services summit
Live blog: Guardian Public Services Summit 2010

Live blog from this year's Guardian Public Services Summit from The Grove, Hertfordshire
External managers are not the ideal role models

The public administration committee has criticised the cabinet secretary's policy of bringing in external managers to the civil service, saying although they are paid more they perform no better than career civil servants
Jobless women at the heart of a new 'journey mapping' scheme

How a new programme called Cash is helping women in Barking and Dagenham return to work
Equality bill: government releases statement on making it work

Public bodies expected to work it out for themselves on how best to deliver equality and target resources on areas where it is needed most
Cost-cutting, private-sector style

Lean thinking, performance mapping, reviewing property deal are all phrases borrowed from the private sector - but are they easily transferable to the public sector?

Improvement in a cold climate

Former Canadian prime minister Paul Martin opens this year's public services summit with a keynote speech on how he tackled the country's huge deficit
Protecting the economy by cutting the deficit

As the major political parties debate how to reduce the budget deficit, Professor Malcolm Prowle from Nottingham Business School, offers suggestions on how to cut public spending
Give Total Place a chance

Whitehall departments' inability to work together could wreck the Total Place pilots, one of their main champions, Michael Bichard, warns
Second wave of procurement reviews brings improvements

OGC's Wave 2 procurement capability reviews have focused on commercial issues and risks, improving efficiency across government
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