Catch up on our Family Hubs webinar!
On 22nd July we hosted a webinar with the Family Hubs Network exploring the family hub model of integrated local public services. Watch a...
Andrew Laird
Jul 24, 20201 min read
Free Family Hubs webinar: Weds 22nd July 10-11.30am
Our webinar has now taken place. If you missed it, catch up here! … Join our webinar co-hosted with the Family Hubs Network for insight...
Andrew Laird
Jul 9, 20202 min read
A national adult care model must be about the mutual bond between local people and places
John Copps argues that adult social care must be about the bond between local people and places. This article was originally published on...
John Copps
Jun 29, 20204 min read
Local authorities must work with communities to lead the COVID-19 recovery
John Copps argues that the recovery from COVID-19 needs to be a joint endeavour with councils, communities and local businesses all...
John Copps
Jun 22, 20202 min read
An effective COVID-19 recovery plan requires co-operation
Jamie McMahon outlines five areas where co-operative values and principles can support local authorities in the recovery from COVID-19. A...
Jamie McMahon
Jun 10, 20203 min read
Planning your COVID-19 recovery strategy
Our support offer to help local authorities to lead their local plan for recovery COVID-19 has shaken the UK’s citizens, communities and...
Mutual Ventures
Jun 4, 20201 min read
Recovering together with communities: ideas to help local authorities plan the COVID-19 recovery
COVID-19 will be a pivotal event for this generation. Public services have an opportunity to reshape themselves around people and...
John Copps
Jun 2, 20201 min read
NHS Providers highlights MV’s support during COVID-19
We are included as one of thirteen consultancies highlighted by NHS Providers as supporting trusts through the pandemic. As NHS...
Mutual Ventures
Jun 2, 20201 min read
COVID-19 – Community ownership should play a key role in local recovery
COVID-19 has rocked local public services and communities to their core. Writing in the MJ, Andrew Laird sets out how there is now an...
Andrew Laird
May 13, 20203 min read
Local authorities can make mutual aid a positive legacy of COVID-19
MV’s new report argues says that councils can encourage and promote the work of mutual aid groups to create more resilient neighbourhoods...
John Copps
May 12, 20201 min read
After Covid-19, public services must be powered by people
Jamie McMahon argues that we must use the Covid-19 crisis to build public services powered by people, and not just return to business as...
Jamie McMahon
May 6, 20203 min read
Three truths about public services laid bare by Covid-19
It is thanks to care assistants, nurses, bin men, doctors, paramedics, bus drivers and social workers, alongside supermarket staff,...
John Copps
Apr 21, 20202 min read
Violence Reduction Units and Family Hubs – an opportunity for joint working
MV’s Ed Stroud reflects on how Violence Reduction Units and Family Hubs can collaborate to create ‘end to end’ support for young people....
Ed Stroud
Mar 17, 20203 min read
Innovation is only as good as the system in which it operates – reflections on the 2020 Intelligent
MV’s Umar Majid reflects on February’s Intelligent Health Conference in London – asking what we can learn from the best innovations in AI...
Umar Majid
Feb 24, 20202 min read
Time for towns to grab their own reins
MV’s Jamie McMahon reflects on his experience of East Midlands towns and how communities across the UK have the chance to seize the...
Jamie McMahon
Feb 13, 20203 min read
In praise of local government
Maligning local government will get us nowhere, even if it is our democratic right to do so. Often maligned and little-understood, they...
John Copps
Feb 7, 20203 min read
Becoming trauma-informed – a recommendation for the future of the Troubled Families Programme
MV’s Ed Stroud argues that new government investment in Family Hubs presents an opportunity to improve outcomes by adopting a...
Ed Stroud
Jan 31, 20203 min read
Primary Care at scale isn’t just about size – it is about the ‘right’ size
John Copps looks at what it means to provide primary care services ‘at scale’ and the implications for the existing landscape of...
John Copps
Jan 14, 20204 min read
Family Hubs – a manifesto promise that could be the future of public services
The following article was published on the MJ website on the 6th January: During the election campaign, the focus was on Brexit and...
Andrew Laird
Jan 8, 20204 min read
Crossing the divide between children and adult services – the principles of a good transition
MV’s Emmet Regan and and Michael Wyatt argue that local authority children and adult services need to have a unified view of the...
Emmet Regan
Dec 11, 20193 min read