Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice. Ok, enough of the rejoicing already.

It transpires that a government strategy to reduce bureaucracy for front line workers (so that public services can work more efficiently without compromising on standards), has recently been published by the Cabinet Office.

The plan (commendably only 15 pages long) sets out how the Government is going to reduce bureaucracy by:

• Getting Whitehall departments to identify, for the first time, the bureaucracy burden on public services.
• Identifying the top 10 irritants in each field (publishing them in late 2007).
• Reducing duplicate or unnecessary information requests by Departments which tie up people on the front line
• Giving public sector workers a clear mechanism to challenge bureaucracy which doesn’t work.

Frontline staff are urged (by the Cabinet Office) to log on to the Cabinet Office better regulation portal at www.betterregulation.gov.uk to lodge their ideas for cutting bureaucracy in their day to day work.

Get to it.

If you’ve finished rejoicing…the plan can be found in the downloads section of this site.

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