AI is rapidly becoming part of everyday workflows, yet most organisations are still grappling with the gap between expectation and reality. This webinar marks the launch of Mutual Ventures’ new AI research paper, ‘AI Adoption in Public Services: What’s Working, What Isn’t, and Why It Matters’ . We explore how AI can be adopted safely, strategically and with real impact. We cover the conditions for successful implementation, what frontline realities look like in councils and p

Local Government Reorganisation can be a catalyst for a more preventative, integrated, humane system says John Copps. For busy council officers – facing challenges day-to-day and relentless scrutiny from regulators – is easy to look at local government reorganisation as a distraction. But LGR is more than an exercise in administrative tidying-up. It is a chance for real reform. With 21 ‘two-tier’ areas due to break up into new unitary councils, the map of children’s services

As learning from the DFJ Trailblazer Programme continues to shape thinking across the sector, many local authorities are beginning to focus on what this means for data, analysis and performance reporting. With changes on the horizon, including a new statutory pre-proceedings dataset, analysts and data leads are increasingly being asked to think ahead about how data is designed, interpreted and used across systems. To support this, Mutual Ventures and Data to Insight ran two D