In the latest episode of Radical Reformers, I speak to Professor Toby Lowe from the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University. Radical Reformers listeners will probably know Toby as a leading Human Learning Systems expert who takes a real interest in the practical delivery of meaningful public service reform. Like the Mutual Ventures team, he is no fan of New Public Management models built on control, targets and standardisation! At the heart o

In the latest episode of Radical Reformers, I meet Becca Dove, Head of the Camden Centre for Relational Practice and Transformation and Simon Parker, Executive Director of Resources at Bath and North East Somerset Council for a rich, reflective conversation about making relational practice the norm in public services. We explore what it really takes to embed relational ways of working across whole organisations, not just at the frontline. Drawing on their personal journeys th

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

This week’s Radical Reformers guest is relational working pioneer, Helen Sanderson, known to us as a leading thinker, researcher and doer...