Watch the first in our #GettingStuffDone webinar series and explore the power of relationships. Public services are a people business. This is true from top to bottom: the shaping force of democratic politics, the responsibility to all citizens, the care of vulnerable children and adults, and a workforce motivated by public service.  Relationships with and between colleagues, stakeholders, and partners are what make or break the delivery of programmes and projects. Ultimate

Client:  Department for Education  Date:  April 2024 – April 2025 Challenges faced by the client: Local Authorities bear a statutory responsibility to ensure there is sufficient and suitable accommodation for looked-after children. Local authorities commission services within a market that, despite its necessity, faces significant and well-documented challenges. Recent influential reviews, such as the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care and the Competition and Market

In this article, Andrew Laird argues that each level of government should have to justify why they aren’t passing power down to the next. It's a deliberately provocative title... of course it's not true for everything. But I'd love it if we started with that. I think it’s probably fair to say that every level of government over estimates its own importance and ability to effect positive change. There is a cultural reluctance to pass power, resources and responsibility to the