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Knitting places together again
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 it is too, say Dr Simon Kaye, Andrew Laird and Professor Donna Hall.

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Talking Total Place

By Helen Bailey | 30 July 2025

Helen Bailey reflects on the first iteration of Total Place, and says it is in the cracks between...

POLITICS

Total Place: The next generation

By Heather Jameson | 09 July 2025

The Government is exploring how it can build on the legacy of Total Place by testing the pooling ...

LGA CONFERENCE

Central and local government will transform the country for the better

By Georgia Gould | 03 July 2025

Writing in the week of the LGA Conference, Jim McMahon and Georgia Gould say this government was ...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Re-wiring the state

By Ann McGauran | 27 June 2025

Sheffield’s network of Family Hubs are playing a crucial role in testing key aspects of the Gover...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

The power of the dream

By Jon Rouse | 27 June 2025

Jon Rouse says that rather than being a bureaucratic exercise, reorganisation is about complete r...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

The chancellor set the roadmap for how the Government will deliver its missions

By Jon Rowney | 25 June 2025

Alongside the Test, Learn and Grow programme, the new approach to public service reform set out i...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

A second wind for Total Place?

By Dan Corry | 11 June 2025

To crack the triple challenge of public service reform, it’s vital to start with place, says Dan ...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Shifting from cure to prevention in Cardiff

By Stephen Taylor | 11 June 2025

Total Place, relational public services and community engagement are at the core of a move to foc...

SPENDING REVIEW

Lighting up imagination

By Sarah Longlands | 11 June 2025

The Spending Review should be a springboard for innovation in public service, writes Sarah Longla...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Frame the problem to design the solution

By Barry Quirk CBE | 03 June 2025

Barry Quirk applauds the Government’s focus on radical innovation, but says defining the issue to...

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