Michael Hallsworth of the Institute of Government and the author of the behaviour change guidance, Mindspace, recently wrote an article in Public Services magazine arguing that at this time of…
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Perhaps one could have predicted how the Public Health Responsibility Deal would be reported today. On one hand the Government welcomes 170 food and drink producers and retailers signing up…
Most Council’s will have now met to set their budgets. Many will have made commitments to review services in order to make specifically totalled savings in the coming year, but…
In May 2010, just after the General Election, we argued that Community Cohesion matters more than ever, saying: “What does the General Election tell us about community cohesion? The failure…
The Fear and Hope report produced by the Searchlight Educational Trust got a lot of media coverage yesterday, especially over the hardening of extremist attitudes through the rise in what…
Having recently blogged about the Values Gap and also the connection between Values and occupational class, I now want to address the issue of “needs” in more detail. After all…
In all the publicity recently over the challenges faced by the Government’s Big Society Agenda and its relaunch with a speech by the Prime Minister yesterday; another report questioning some…
TCC have used a wide range of segmentation for both its quantitative and qualitative research. This has included standard geo-demographics such as gender, ethnicity, occupational class and geographical region. In…
I write a lot about the need to understand values because often there is a mismatch between the values of the people in public bodies and the values of the…
The publication of all English crime data on the Police Maps website has perhaps not led to quite the reaction that the government expected. Indeed there has been a lot…
At the end of this week, I think it would be good to reflect on quite a number of reports regarding the future of local government that have been in…
The Health and Social Care Bill was published yesterday. Clearly there is a lot of controversy over what some might see as “another top down reorganisation” as well as specific…
David Cameron spoke today about the pace of public service modernisation. Whatever one’s view on that pace of change, his coalition government has a majority and a commitment to a…
A new Government paper on Behavioural insight was published just at the tail end of last year. It may well have been missed by many working in this field because…
Three years ago I wrote the blog here about the way we as a society make January and February so miserable after the mid-winter celebrations of Christmas and the New…
No, the title of this posting is not one about Council’s ordering less grit than last year for the current snowfall, or even that unpredictable small earthquake in Cumbria on…
The consultation on the Public Health Outcomes Framework was published on Monday and closes on 31 March 2010. A smaller set of indicators, than in the recent past, are proposed…
The Decentralisation and Localism Bill will be published this afternoon. It is likely to contain the following proposals: Directly elected Mayors for 12 cities subject to successful referendums. The Police…