IES talk - Business Cases for Public Good

IES (Institute for Employment Studies) does groundbreaking research into the impact of employment practice on delivery of effective public services, amongst other things (for a fuller explanation see their web site).
They run fortnightly lunchtime seminars on relevant issues and Tues 8 Oct 08 was the inaugural seminar for this academic year.
Minney.org presented on how to prepare and deliver a business case for public and statutory funding, illustrating some of the difficulties of assembling evidence, and of introducing new roles.

Questions arising included how poorly thought through the introduction of many new roles has been, with funding obtained to train new roles but little thought either to job descriptions or to how these people will be deployed.