Sir Bill Taylor
Living together in a decent society
Can we embrace notions of consensus around principles that we can agree we can share?
Choosing which cause to support
I’ve not really been following the news a great deal recently. I’ve been travelling
Cheshire blows it’s trumpet
How does the private/public/3rd sector Trinity operate in the new economic environment?
Did we predict these riots?
What we’ve just witnessed weren’t “justifiable” riots but looting, pilfering, wanton aggression & violence, writes Sir Bill Taylor.
Blessed are the bean counters
What if we have just embarked upon a huge and possibly irreversible eradication of the investment in our public services?
New slippers - again
There is change ahead. We have to face up to it and try to shape it into opportunity.
Open all hours
I wouldn’t want to go back to being a local councillor. It’s pretty thankless, time consuming task
Pariahs or service providers?
The public, private and 3rd sectors have always co-habited quite happily together, with the occasional tiff often over where the line between them should be drawn, if indeed it should.
Get those crystal balls out - quickly
Seven weeks after the General Election…Like the riders in the Grand National, they’re definitely off
There may be trouble ahead?
For those of us designing, delivering & developing modern public services, in a democratic environment, the next few months/years will not be easy.
Why are we waiting?
Pro-active management seems better to me than waiting for the crisis to multiply & mutate?
Trust Plus is now live
In Blackburn with Darwen, where the journey to Total Place began back in the 1980s, we can now strike out the ‘Designate’ as we go live with our brand new organisation:- Our NHS Care Trust+!
There's a place for us
If we are committed to the concept, pursuit, attainment & development of Total Place, what will that mean for us all?
Better tomorrows?
It’s not how many times you get knocked down that matters…it’s how many times you get up!
Blackburn College - what a wonderful place
Blogger Bill Taylor would say that, wouldn’t he? He’s the chair after all
Crazy! Rewarding but still Crazy! After all these years!!!
Today’s average age for a councillor is 58.3 - a significant increase since 10 years ago when it was 55.4!
Equality versus Mobility
I (that’s me, Bill Taylor) think, we (in local government) think that they (in central government) don’t trust us! But who’s right?
