Is public service ethos a factor in commercial companies that are providing public services?
I’m sitting in my offices in the middle of Dulwich surrounded by social housing on the one side. And yes we have a swimming pool and a playing field being used by the community. We see ourselves as a public resource. You can’t just shut yourself off. And the education we provide is contributing to the country’s future. We are serving too. ยท Polly Curtis STATE SCHOOL Leon Chee-a-Tow, 26, design and technology teacher at St Joseph’s Catholic school in Slough. After graduating, Leon worked in a bar for four years before deciding to move into teaching, he has worked as a supply teacher as well as in permanent positions, always in the state-maintained sector Do you recognise the term “public service ethos”, and how do you define it? Basically the public sector ethos is the sort of the vibes you get working in the public sector – how I and the other staff feel and how people perceive what we do. How did you come to know the term? No one actually described the term to me. Public sector is wor
