How to be wrong
We learn from our mistakes. So why is it so hard to find examples of wrong turns in public documents? How To Be Wrong is the product of a network of experts from around the U.K. and Netherlands reflecting on the future of learning.
Relational Social Policy – An Invitation to Co-Create a New Approach to Local Government
Our research has shown us that the future of local government lies in greater balance between the state and civil society.
We are looking for five to ten local governments or clinical commissioning groups to embrace, adapt and apply the ideas in this paper for the communities they serve.
The Relational Worker
Young people say that being matched to a support worker is like playing the lottery. If you are lucky, you get a good one. What is a good worker? What do they do? How do they make a difference? And what kind of difference? Based on five years of research The Relational Worker tackles these questions.
Child Protection as Public Health
Child protection is a one case at a time business. Public health is about populations. This provocation explores what a public health approach to child protection might mean. Putting children in charge of design. Using contagion to spread better conflict resolution in families.
Community Owned Data
Public systems collect data on individuals and the interventions. In civil society it is context that matters. But how to measure context? Much can be learned from data collected on phones and cameras. But the ethics are difficult. This provocation suggests ways of overcoming these challenges with data that are useful to and owned by local people, and used in the service of health and well-being.
Three Eras Ireland
We are emerging into a third era of social policy, one defined by relationships, trust and rigour. But what does that mean in practice? In Ireland, all three eras are charted, a story of potential realised, and potential still to be tapped.
Teepee in Blackpool Victoria Hospital
A tent, a big tent, in a hospital foyer. A thousand people a week are drawn in. The space, and not much else, gets them to reflect, and to connect with each other. For short periods at least, it produces altruism and mutual aid, a preparedness to help, and be helped.
Public Living Rooms
Friends and purpose. That is all that any of us need according to social reformer Maff Potts, founder of the Association of Camerados. How to achieve that? The learning takes us from a garage in the back streets of Sheffiled to a teepee in Blackpool hospital.
Problem Solving Booths
What do you need? This was the question social entrepreneur and clinical psychologist Charlie Howard posed to a young person on the margins of society. His response? A problem solving booth, right here, right now.
Fixing and Connecting
What is fixing, and what is connecting? Under what circumstances is one more effective than the other? In Oxfordshire a collective of health, housing, justice and social care agencies came together to prevent homlessness. Their learning shines light on these questions…