Accountability in modern government: what are the issues?

accountability matters it's the link between those in power making decisions and the interests of all of us whether as voters whether it's service users whether it's residents in a local community when it works well it makes UK government among the best in the world but when it doesn't work we see repeated failures failures in the delivery of services chronic underperformance in how government operates and people's live deeply affected by things that should simply never have happened in this paper we look at three underlying causes for weaknesses in accountability in white or where conventions which date

back hundreds of years leave particular gaps which allow accountability not to operate in wider public services where often we're changing and churning how we run them again causing accountability not to keep up to pace with the latest way we're operating and in the culture that surrounds accountability a culture of blame a culture that makes people protect their own backs rather than having the frank and open discussions that are necessary to figure out how to improve the services we all rely on have a look at the paper see what you think we've included some suggestions about

how we might improve accountability in the UK but really what we most want is your ideas so please do again touch