Ministers urged to let schools and hospitals fail to hasten reforms

White paper argues for ending the state monopoly on public services and putting the power in people’s hands Ministers have been privately advised to allow schools and hospitals to fail if the government is to succeed in its overhaul of public services, confidential government documents reveal. The prime minister will today announce long-awaited plans to “end the state’s monopoly” over public services and give people more “choice and control” over what they use, in a white paper opening up swaths of the public sector to private companies, charities and mutuals. David Cameron will claim that the welfare state is failing, and promise to “release the grip of

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