admin
- Aug 16
- 5 min
Covid Bounce-Back Programme – Community and Voluntary Sector
This is a call for applications to Barnsley Council’s Covid Bounce-Back Programme for the Community and Voluntary Sector. It is for...
admin
- Aug 16
- 5 min
Covid Bounce-Back Programme – Cultural, Creative and Visitor Sectors
This is a call for applications to Barnsley Council’s Covid Bounce-Back Programme for the Cultural, Creative and Visitor Sectors. It is...
Emmet Regan
- Mar 16
- 3 min
What public services can learn from other responses to the pandemic
Emmet Regan argues that the experience of COVID-19 has demonstrated that and that public services have lots to learn from other sectors....
Eliza Hardwich
- Jan 28
- 3 min
‘Levelling Up’ must mean children are not left behind by COVID-19
Eliza Hardwick argues that without a coherent strategy to ‘level up’ for the most disadvantaged children, repeated COVID-19 school...
Alissa Davies
- Jan 6
- 3 min
Continuing to deliver Family Safeguarding in challenging times
Strengthening Families Programme Coach Alissa Davies shares insights gathered via an online survey of local authority teams who have...
Andrew Laird
- Nov 25, 2020
- 4 min
COVID-19 highlights the importance of community ‘bridges’
MV’s Andrew’s Laird and Chris Wright, chief executive of Catch22, argues that community bridge organisations are a vital part of...
Jordan Binedell
- Nov 13, 2020
- 2 min
The rapid digitisation of public services in response to COVID-19 needs to be a priority
Jordan Binedell welcomes the rapid adoption of technology in public services but argues that we need to give priority to ensuring those...
Michael Wyatt
- Oct 22, 2020
- 3 min
Front-line autonomy in public services is vital to keep pace with COVID-19
Michael Wyatt argues that public sector leaders have a responsibility to empower front-line staff to make decisions to best cope with the...
Alissa Davies
- Oct 20, 2020
- 5 min
To emerge stronger from the COVID-19 crisis, we must take the time to understand how local authoriti
Alissa Davies reflects on a decade working with local government, and why it is uniquely placed to lead us through the current and future...
Andrew Laird
- Oct 16, 2020
- 2 min
Catch up on our webinar – Strategic priorities in and beyond the crisis: how to build back better
Catch up on our webinar where we consider strategic priorities in and beyond the crisis with a focus on how to build back better. The...
admin
- Sep 30, 2020
- 2 min
Case study: Bury 2030 Strategy, Bury Council
Client: Bury Council Date: March 2020 - September 2020 Support offered: We were originally commissioned pre-Covid-19 to support the...
John Copps
- Sep 26, 2020
- 3 min
The Kruger report on Levelling Up: a step towards consensus between government and civil society
Danny Kruger’s report – Levelling Up our Communities – proposes a re-emphasis on communities in the recovery from COVID-19. John Copps...
John Copps
- Jun 22, 2020
- 2 min
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...
admin
- Jun 4, 2020
- 1 min
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...
John Copps
- Jun 2, 2020
- 1 min
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
- May 12, 2020
- 1 min
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...