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It's time to break the pattern of reliance on pilot schemes
PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

It's time to break the pattern of reliance on pilot schemes

By Annabel Smith | 09 December 2025

Annabel Smith urges the Government to move beyond the cycle of pilot schemes and adopt a more mission-led approach to local government.

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Transforming public services in Liverpool City Region

By Kirsty McLean | 24 October 2025

Kirsty McLean reveals how the Liverpool-based Office for Public Service Innovation – working with...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Test, Learn and Grow: Sheffield's family hubs

By Cllr Tom Hunt | 24 October 2025

Cllr Tom Hunt says Sheffield is aiming to build on the success of its Test, Learn and Grow pilot ...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

Future Forum Midlands: Test, learn and grow to enter new phase

By Martin Ford | 10 September 2025

The Government is preparing to share learning from the test, learn and grow programme, The MJ’s F...

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM

The Test, Learn and Grow programme is unlikely to shift the dial on its own

By Abdool Kara | 08 September 2025

Abdool Kara says the Labour manifesto promised a mission-led government, 'but there is little evi...

GOVERNANCE

Shifting the levers of control to the local

By Max Wide | 03 September 2025

Max Wide says it is time to fundamentally alter the dynamics of the relationships between localit...

SOLACE

Making reform in Scotland the real thing

By Des Murray | 28 August 2025

As delegates gather for the Solace Scotland Conference 2025, Des Murray says progressing collecti...

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

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 ...

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Head of Service Future Options

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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our senior leadership team in Adult Social Care in Doncaster. Apply for this job

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