All the buzz is about relational public services – and rightly so. In this week’s Radical Reformers, I welcome not one, but two experts in the subject, Professor Hannah Hesselgreaves and Professor Chris Fox from the Policy Evaluation Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University. They explore the role academia plays in the development of public service reform and public policy, and how it should play a deeper, more relational role in public service reform, far beyond tr

Watch our webinar where guests consider what we can learn from pathfinders. Regional Care Cooperatives (RCCs) are set to become a defining feature of the next phase of children's social care reform. While national policy is still evolving, pathfinder areas are already testing what RCCs could mean in practice - for systems, places, providers and communities. This webinar explored how leaders can plan ahead for further roll-out of RCCs, rather than waiting for final guidance to

In this article, Prof. Donna Hall and Andrew Laird argue that to successfully deliver the Pride in Place programme, communities need to be given pride-of-place in both governance and delivery. Most of us have something in our homes that takes pride of place. Something we value deeply and put on display. A family photograph, a child’s drawing, a treasured ornament that was your grandma’s. Imagine if communities took pride of place in neighbourhood renewal. Imagine if residents