As promised, we’d love to show you around a few more of the Si Team’s neighbourhoods. Everyone lives in a neighbourhood - those small local places where much of daily life unfolds and where people can feel most connected. At Si, neighbourhoods sit right at...
The LSE Internship Fund Scheme made it possible for me, Emma, a second year International Social and Public Policy student, to take up a role at Shared Intelligence. As a young person, I am acutely aware of what it’s like to navigate the pathways into...
Our new research for Local Trust, in collaboration with OCSI (Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion), provides some of the strongest evidence to date about the specific effects of neighbourhood-based programmes compared to places with no history of neighbourhood initiatives. We hope these findings will inform...
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, co-production and meaningful collaboration between the voluntary and community sector (VCS) and local government has been in the spotlight. As local government increasingly faces financial challenges of high inflation and increased pressures on statutory services, co-production should be considered even more...
Achieving equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) within local government is vital to the future success and sustainability of the sector. In our work, we have identified best practice examples where local government has begun to improve representation. But has it gone far enough and is...
What's the local vision and what structures will get us there writes Phil Swann. The government’s much anticipated devolution and recovery white paper looks set to be delayed. According to some reports ministers’ apparent enthusiasm for the creation of more unitary councils is rapidly waning. All of...
Plans for unitary local government need to support wider public service reform – and this needs time writes Tony Blake. The government has reignited the unitary council debate but is local government reorganisation a guilty pleasure? We all know that the discussions distract from business as usual...
By Phil Swann When I first heard about Betty she was in her mid-80s and lived in rural Dorset. Her husband had died a few years ago. She often got nervous at night, sometimes because of a urinary infection. She got in the habit of dialling...