He writes:
They follow the trail blazed by the top independent schools when they withdrew from the league tables, but this is a much braver and more significant step.David blogs at The Real Blog (but not very often).
It is also an emperor's new clothes moment for government targets: if you deny their existence, they lose their power. Whole swaths of the public sector - and local government in particular - will now be emboldened to go the same way.
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They were not Brown's targets. He is allowing them to wither. A pity he could not have stood tall and thrown them out by putting forward a coherent philosophy of responsibility and commonsense, along with different kinds of targets: service quality and competence from the top down.
But its good that we are beginning to see signs of leaders emerging again at the local level, and not just in the police.
I bet you that any attempt by public services to drop targets will be met with a swift removal of funding from central government.
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