Summary of ideas submitted in the Services (local) category…

• Set up local trades-people’s co-ops.
• Set up more private hospitals.
• Set up online local forums whereby SMEs can find partner firms who purchase the same items.
• Setting up call centres/processing centres paying rates closer to the Eastern European rates.
• Social welfare should be on a sliding scale. Encourage long term unemployed people to gain skills.
• Sort out the hospital bed problems.
• Start a Grameen Bank that gives loans to small customers and women who are forced to go to the moneylender.
• Stop the blockage/resistance of hiring private sector individuals into the public sector.
• Subsidise employers who can keep people employed.
• Tackle litter, and put unwanted coppers to some use.
• Tax bonuses above a certain high figure.
• Tax credits on minor household repairs.
• Tax relief on nixer jobs.
• Teachers teach parents of special needs children how to teach their own children.
• The Government could set up an online bank
• The Government needs to compel local authorities to order developers to complete unfinished housing estates.
• The Government should employ on a contract basis groups of unemployed admin staff to bring the back log of people waiting for unemployment assistance down to a one week wait.
• The private sector needs transparency on public service overhead so they can identify and provide more competitive services
• Those on the dole would be charged with working 1-2 days a week with a small business.
• To create a free website to help people reclaim their dormant funds, life insurance monies and pensions.
• Town centres could regain some vibrancy and retain employment if the owners of empty buildings were willing to rent start-ups office space for a nominal fee for six months.
• Use local midwives instead of hospital doctors to deliver babies.
• Vacant property under administration should be rented at a nominal rent for short periods.