Is your council going through Local government reorganisation? Take a look at the RedQuadrant LGR hub https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7437054177383567360/ A lot of councils are now entering the phase of Local Government Reorganisation where the real work begins.Most support around Local Government Reorganisation is advisory. Someone reviews the position, tests the options, and produces a thoughtful set of recommendations. … Continue reading Is your council going through Local government reorganisation? Take a look at the RedQuadrant LGR hub →

My weekly posts Baroness Casey just did something rare in adult social care. She named the thing we keep skirting around — it’s what she was appointed for. I think Baroness Casey has named a reality we often avoid: social care is the sixth of Beveridge’s giants. We’ve never had a true founding moment for it, … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #212 →

Baroness Casey just did something rare in adult social care. She named the thing we keep skirting around — it’s what she was appointed for. Beveridge had five ‘giants’. Casey says we now have a sixth: how we support an older, sicker population and greater levels of disability https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_leadership-socialcare-nhs-activity-7435441859432251392-25JG?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACuq-oBecVFDW6PCf3lkoG-peMeuLBeoho Baroness Casey just did something rare in adult … Continue reading Baroness Casey just did something rare in adult social care. She named the thing we keep skirting around — it’s what she was appointed for. →

My weekly posts Trying to ascertain some facts about the Democracy Volunteers observations on the Denton and Gorton byelection Frustrated by thin media context, I used ChatGPT to dig into Democracy Volunteers, ‘family voting’ and the law after the Gorton and Denton row. I learned that ‘family voting’ isn’t a legal term; the offence hinges on … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #211 →

My weekly posts Public services don’t fail primarily because of money, digital, or process but because they are numb to themselves Public services fail less from money or process than from epistemic blindness: they cannot sense or learn at the boundary where citizens meet organisations. Systems practice, the author argues, is a humanism – a stance … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #210 →

Public services don’t fail primarily because of money, digital, or process but because they are numb to themselves. Systems practice is a humanism; a responsibility. We draw a line: service / citizen. Systems practice helps us see the implications of that and work relationally. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_public-services-dont-fail-primarily-because-activity-7429442843301175296-arYW Public services don’t fail primarily because of money, digital, or process.They … Continue reading Public services don’t fail primarily because of money, digital, or process but because they are numb to themselves →

My weekly posts The most expensive thing in a workshop is the facilitator trying to be useful. In workshops, the costliest thing we can do is try to be “useful” too quickly. Not because helping is wrong, but because it often comes from our own need for safety and status in uncertainty. So we rush to … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #209 →