Public Services Inspection in the UK provides a detailed account of the changing role of inspection in public services management. It analyses the key debates about the role that inspection plays in increasing public accountability and encouraging service improvement. Contributors describe current inspection methods across the key public sectors of education, social care, the criminal justice system, local government services and healthcare, and examine the underlying issues and tensions associated with public services inspection. They compare approaches adopted in different parts of the UK...

The thrust of this book is that you should exercise great care in doing business with sign companies. All sign companies are not rogues, however; there are many good companies. This book will help customers to single them out, to the commercial disadvantage of the remainder. For those who buy a lot of signage, this book offers a useful aide-memoir. You are probably aware of the endemic problems in some parts of the industry, alert to the risks, and adept at handling them. Even some of the experts, however, might find one or two twists in these pages that are new to them. For those who haven't...