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Ethical standards for providers of public services

Post Office Horizon - an accountability failure

Doug Chalmers, 22 January 2024 - Accountability, Ethical standards for providers of public services, Nolan Principles

Bringing in a new IT system to modernise a seriously outdated system is never as straightforward as one hopes. But the catastrophic impact of the Horizon system at the Post Office and the subsequent handling of the problems asks major …

The last piece of the puzzle

Mark Chambers, 12 November 2020 - Ethical standards for providers of public services

Mark Chambers, Associate Director of the Institute for Business Ethics, guest blogs for the Committee on the relevance of the Seven Principles of Public Life to business.

Ethical dilemmas in delivering front line services

Dame Shirley Pearce, 29 November 2018 - Ethical standards, Ethical standards for providers of public services, Ethics in practice, Policing

Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) member, Dame Shirley Pearce, discusses the Police Ethics Network.

A new, ethical approach to outsourcing social care

Bob Hudson, 20 September 2018 - Ethical standards, Ethical standards for providers of public services, Ethics in practice

Bob Hudson, professor in the Centre for Health Service Studies at Kent University, comments on the outsourcing of public services following CSPL's 2014 report on ethical standards for providers of public services.

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The Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) is an independent advisory non-departmental public body that advises the Prime Minister on ethical standards across the whole of public life in the UK. It monitors and reports on issues relating to the standards of conduct of all public office holders.

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