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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Despite years of money and government initiatives the evidence of London’s communities actually being in control of meaningful budgets or setting up new, local, democratically elected bodies (such as parish councils) is thin on the ground. Read more
