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  1. Do carer tasks predict carer employment? Evidence from the Survey of Adult Carers in England
  2. Debate: Public audit, the Redmond review, and the use of public interest reports
  3. Responding to Vulnerability in Practice – Ambulance, Police and Fire and Rescue Services
  4. Rebuilding the Fire and Rescue Services
  5. Prelims
  6. Index
  7. Alarm Bells Ringing: Introduction
  8. A Sinking Platform: The Data Dilemma
  9. The Gold Standard: An Evaluative Model
  10. Two Steps Forward and One Back: The 2018 National Framework
  11. So Near and Yet So Far: A Rigorous and Independent Inspectorate?
  12. A Glass Half-empty or a Glass Half-full?: Conclusions, Reflections and Reactions
  13. Evaluation of an early discharge from hospital scheme focussing on patients’ housing needs: The ASSIST Project
  14. Accountability for performance in English and Scottish fire and rescue services from 2010 to 2016
  15. The strategic and operational landscape of emergency services in the UK
  16. A Comparative Appraisal of Recent and Proposed Changes to the Fire and Rescue Services in England and Scotland
  17. Introduction to Critical Perspectives on the Management and Organisation of Emergency Services
  18. Conclusion
  19. Stating the obvious
  20. Exploring accountability in English public services
  21. Fire and Rescue
  22. Public Service Accountability—Some Reflections
  23. Police
  24. Our
  25. But What Is Accountability?
  26. Health and Social Care
  27. Fire and Rescue Services
  28. Local Government Under Austerity, Narrowing the Accountability Landscape in England
  29. Scottish Fire and Rescue Services Reform 2010–2015
  30. Consolidation and Improvement: Fire and Rescue Under the New Labour Administrations 2005–2010
  31. Introduction
  32. The Gathering Storm: Modernisation, Local Alignment and Collaboration. Fire and Rescue Services Under the Early New Labour Administrations from 1997 to 2005
  33. Local Government Under Austerity, Narrowing the Accountability Landscape in England
  34. Accountability and transparency: Police forces in England and Wales
  35. Building the next model for intervention and turnaround in poorly performing local authorities in England
  36. Sport, physical activity and the establishment of Health and Wellbeing Boards in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
  37. Housing and Council Tax Benefits Administration in England: A Long-Term Perspective on the Performance of the Local Government Delivery System
  38. Public health and health and wellbeing boards: antecedents, theory and development
  39. Collaboration and interconnectivity
  40. Performance management in fire and rescue services
  41. A new way of measuring risk for Fire and Rescue Service in the UK
  42. Comprehensive Performance Assessment and Public Services Improvement in England? A Case Study of the Benefits Administration Service in Local Government