Reform secondary education in Poland: a success story?

Reform proposal for financing of hospitals creates turmoil in health care sector

Give a voice to citizens when evaluating local police care

This evaluation of citizen satisfaction in local police care showed some remarkable results. Itinera pleads for a more transparent evaluation and benchmarking of local police zones. Read the report and press release.

Unequal when facing inflation

Inflation is higher for low income households, retired households and young households of less than 25 years old. This result suggests that our indexation system, proportional to the health index, provides more protection to the rich than to the more vulnerable households.

Read the opinion of Jean Hindriks and Vincent Bodart here

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The uncertainty around the status of the standardisation of dismissal law is costing Belgium prosperity and jobs

Care sector proposes 283 million of saving on short term.

Itinera publishes more than 1800 ideas from the sector for smart savings in the care sector. 283 million euros quick win savings are possible. Itinera wants to reach out ideas from the sector during the budget round that improve the efficiency of care without reducing its quality.

Read here the analysis, the press release and look at the 1800 ideas from the sector. 

Integration in the labour market will not happen by itself!

And read the press release

FLASH ITINERA ‘FACTCHECKING’

The budget debate in our country confronts us with the need for greater fiscal coordination at European level, the think tank Itinera argues. For Belgium the think tank sees but one good remedy: save on public spending at all levels. It has been said that we have an austerity policy, but the statistics show otherwise. Government spending continue to rise, and they do so at all levels: federal and regional and local. Government expenditures have increased more in our country than the euro zone’s average. In difficult times, strong countries such as Germany and the Netherlands can afford the public spending to rise and to stimulate domestic consumption, but Belgium is certainly not in this group of strong countries.

Read here the opinion and the press release.  

Best cultural policy = supporting arts education

Arts education is one of the types of cultural policy for which government spending is the easiest to justify. Itinera also pleads for a revision of the financing of part-time arts education whereby a Matthew effect is being avoided.

Read here the analysis and the press release.

Read also the position of the Association of Teachers of Music education