The latest articles written by Andrew Laird

REGENERATION

Ensuring people take pride of place

By Andrew Laird | 17 March 2026

To successfully deliver the Pride in Place programme communities need to be prioritised in both g...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Knitting places together again

By Professor Donna Hall | 31 July 2025

The place-based approach is ready for the mainstream – so it’s important that the system around i...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Catching the money falling between the silos

By Donna Hall | 11 May 2025

The goal of radical place leadership is to embed and systematise relational working, and research...

HOUSING

Can we refocus on public service reform now?

By Andrew Laird | 05 September 2023

Part of the challenge for governments in tackling poverty is to enable everyone to work together ...

HEALTH

The 'people's choice' for health and care leadership

By Andrew Laird | 11 May 2022

Andrew Laird says local authorities are the driving force for the levelling up agenda through co-...

HEALTH

How can the NHS work with councils on levelling up?

By Andrew Laird | 15 October 2021

Andrew Laird says the levelling up jigsaw is missing one major piece – the NHS – and he points to...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Levelling Up through Community Ownership

By Andrew Laird | 05 March 2021

Andrew Laird welcomes the plan to create a £150m Community Ownership Fund and says the agenda sho...

THIRD SECTOR

COVID has highlighted the importance of community 'bridges'

By Andrew Laird | 17 November 2020

Andrew Laird and Chris Wright put the case for working through ‘community bridge’ organisations t...

CRIME

In defence of algorithms and their value to public services

By Andrew Laird | 04 September 2020

Rather than turning our back on algorithms, the task is to make them better and the data they use...