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So it's hardly surprising that much of the coverage has revealed a kind of New Labour managerialism that first sneers and then tries to inject a target-driven businesslike approach.

A little bit of Ealing around St Paul's | Yvonne Roberts 2011

New Labour's creation of the PCT structure was a scandalous waste of money; all of the improvements since 1997 are the result of greater investment, but they could have been much, much more impressive if you hadn't wasted so much of our energy and resources on all of the target-driven performance management and market model garbage.

The NHS deserves better than government meddling | David Miliband 2011

We have had more interaction with decent, working and law-abiding citizens in this period than in the last five years of target-driven nonsense policing.

They Just Don’t Get It. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

Peter Fahy, Chief Constable of Cheshire, criticised the culture of target-driven policing “that gives criminal records for playground fights”.

Knife Crime « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

They play and tell stories years after ours are sitting down in school to a target-driven curriculum.

January « 2008 « Urban Fantasy Land 2008

So a government appoints people who aren't teachers to set targets; those same people then attack schools for being too target-driven; and a new regime sets new targets to break the spell of the old targets.

Michael Gove's missed the obvious target for reform ? Ofsted Zoe Williams 2010

The coalition would press ahead with this plan, the minister said, in contrast to what the Tories regard as Labour's top-down, target-driven approach.

Nick Herbert outlines new thinking on policing 2010

They play and tell stories years after ours are sitting down in school to a target-driven curriculum.

What Every Child Should Read « Urban Fantasy Land 2008

Already, the government is projecting an inflation rate of at least 7% a year for the next five years, far higher than its neighbors, in a sign that it intends to pursue its target-driven, growth-at-all-costs policies.

Vietnam Battles Dark Side of Boom James Hookway 2010

We now have a reductive, target-driven system that is failing both patients and dentists.

British Dentistry Reforms Fail | Impact Lab 2007