Client: Cheshire East Council, in partnership with Standing Together Against Domestic Abuse Date: 2025 Challenges faced by the client: Domestic abuse survivors often face a heightened risk of homelessness, with support typically focused on crisis response rather than prevention. Cheshire East Council and its partners were piloting the Whole Housing Approach (WHA), a coordinated model bringing together housing, health, and local services to improve outcomes for survivors. Howe

In our latest episode of Radical Reformers, I'm joined by Andy Ferrier, Chief Executive of Test Valley Borough Council , for a thoughtful and practical conversation about how public service reform, neighbourhood working and democratic renewal can come together. At Mutual Ventures we talk about Radical Place Leadership - Andy is definitely a Radical place Leader! In this episode, we discuss: Why many people feel alienated from traditional democratic processes and what can be

In this article, Georgina Cox and Andrew Laird argue that Radical Place Leadership will not succeed unless finance and resource leadership evolves just as fundamentally as frontline practice and policy. Many thanks to Nina Philippidis, Simon Parker, Adele Taylor and Rob Powell for their contributions to this article. Council finance and resourcing functions are often viewed as a dark cloud... but they can be a bright, enabling light. Across local government, conversations reg