Author Archive for: Giles
Entries by Giles Piercy
When you’re going to spend a lot of our money in our community can we please be asked how best to spend it?
The debate around whether public services should be run by the private sector or the public sector, is one that is often driven by dogma rather than any dispassionate assessment about what will actually be best for people and their communities. One significant absence is the failure to ask: “could the community not do this […]
Eight characteristics of councils that are building stronger more resilient communities
We were commissioned recently to carry out research to try and uncover which upper tier local authorities in England were making genuine progress in terms of building stronger more resilient communities. Through both desk based research and structured interviews what emerged was a set of characteristics of councils who are serious about getting communities to […]
“Grab a kebab” and other lessons in prevention and behaviour change from the fire services
Although not widely recognised across the rest of the public sector, Fire and Rescue Services have arguably gone further in terms of demand management and service prevention than any single public service body. Over the past 10 years the fire service has overseen a substantial reduction in the level of demand for its services. This […]
