🔥 New today 🔥 The first publication from The Marshall Plan for Civic Life 👇 Today @kinship.works and @demos-uk.bsky.social have published a Discussion Paper to open a conversation about how to fund a decade of civic renewal. marshall-plan.netlify.app (1/n)

🔥 New today 🔥 Can a new style of political leadership unlock the energy at the edges? As Andy Burnham rises to the Premiership, I've written an essay exploring the value of a more enabling style of political leadership. (1/n) medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Can a new style of political leadership unlock the energy at the edges?

As Andy Burnham rises to the Premiership, this essay explores the value of a more enabling style of political leadership. What is enabling…

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I've written a new post exploring a fascinating turn in education reform. After a period in which there was pressure for ever narrower approaches to education, today's pioneers are advocating for a holistic model, with schools at the centre of a thriving civic life. (1/n) medium.com/@jamestplunk...

How to grow tomorrows

What if schools were not just sites for delivering education, but societies in miniature? Thousands of chances to cultivate a better future

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🔥 New today 🔥 Can a new style of political leadership unlock the energy at the edges? As Andy Burnham rises to the Premiership, I've written an essay exploring the value of a more enabling style of political leadership. (1/n) medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Can a new style of political leadership unlock the energy at the edges?

As Andy Burnham rises to the Premiership, this essay explores the value of a more enabling style of political leadership. What is enabling…

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Ah, the joys of interacting with HMRC. I need an authentication code from the app in order to login to my account, but I need to login to my account in order to set up the authentication codes. Has anyone broken out of this particular doom loop? (No, they do not answer the helpline.)

Ok, this is a big one: Announcing the Marshall Plan for Civic Life. A landmark programme of research and deliberation to develop a funding settlement for civic renewal. More from @pollycurtis.bsky.social and me about the work: medium.com/@jamestplunk... Website: www.marshallplan.org.uk (1/n)

A Marshall Plan for Civic Life

There is a growing movement for civic renewal, with broad political support. But one question remains unanswered: how do we fund this work…

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New: Can the NHS leapfrog the rest of government on public sector digital work? (1/n) medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Could the NHS leapfrog the rest on public sector digital work?

Start small, think big

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New: Can the NHS leapfrog the rest of government on public sector digital work? (1/n) medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Could the NHS leapfrog the rest on public sector digital work?

Start small, think big

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One of the oddest signs of our times is that so many people want to run marathons and half marathons that getting a place is like trying to buy Beyoncé tickets. A nice thing, I think? Or have we all just gone mad?

Some Friday reading. One snippet: "There are stark differences in the way the centre and the edges think about scaling. The centre uses phrases like ‘roll out’ (3.4x more than the edges), as well as ‘milestones’ (5.7×), ‘targets’ (3.9×), ‘pilot’ (2.0×), and ‘implement’ (1.9×)... (1/2)

James Plunkett@jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🔔 New today! 🔔 How do worldviews differ between the centre of government and innovators at the edges? A major new publication from The Centre for the Edge initiative from Kinship Works and Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). And a new website too! 1/2 medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Some Thursday reading 👇👀

James Plunkett@jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🔔 New today! 🔔 How do worldviews differ between the centre of government and innovators at the edges? A major new publication from The Centre for the Edge initiative from Kinship Works and Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). And a new website too! 1/2 medium.com/@jamestplunk...

🔔 New today! 🔔 How do worldviews differ between the centre of government and innovators at the edges? A major new publication from The Centre for the Edge initiative from Kinship Works and Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). And a new website too! 1/2 medium.com/@jamestplunk...

The centre is from Mars, the edges are from Venus

How do worldviews differ between the centre of government and innovators at the edges? And can we stop these differences from being a…

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🔔 New today! 🔔 How do worldviews differ between the centre of government and innovators at the edges? A major new publication from The Centre for the Edge initiative from Kinship Works and Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). And a new website too! 1/2 medium.com/@jamestplunk...

The centre is from Mars, the edges are from Venus

How do worldviews differ between the centre of government and innovators at the edges? And can we stop these differences from being a…

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🎉 Announcing a new project today 🎉 A collaboration between Kinship Works and The Future Governance Forum, supported by Barrow Cadbury Trust @kinship.works @futuregovforum.bsky.social @barrowcadbury.bsky.social. Mapping the energy at the edges to improve government medium.com/@jamestplunk.... 1/n

Re-energising government

What we see at the edges isn’t just energy — it’s methods we should be using in government

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Off to Liverpool to see how the Citizen First incubator has been going. A trip to Anfield to hear what the entrepreneurs have been up to. What a treat! I wrote about these methods in this post: medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Does anyone know a good dog walker in Liverpool? Need someone central-ish for the day later this week.

🔔 NEW today from @kinship.works 🔔 Ending the institutional monoculture. How can we spread more diverse institutional forms across the public sector and civil society? medium.com/@jamestplunk... (1/n)

Escaping the institutional monoculture

How can we spread more diverse forms?

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🔔 NEW today from @kinship.works 🔔 Ending the institutional monoculture. How can we spread more diverse institutional forms across the public sector and civil society? medium.com/@jamestplunk... (1/n)

Escaping the institutional monoculture

How can we spread more diverse forms?

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Another quick share of this new post. 👇 On the capabilities required in government to make programmes like Pride in Place (and neighbourhood healthcare) a success.

James Plunkett@jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A new post on the capabilities government needs to support the work of civic renewal. I share three insights. 1. This work doesn't scale, it spreads. 2. Don't go for speed, go for traction. 3. Use your power to hold space open. (1/n) medium.com/@jamestplunk...

A new post on the capabilities government needs to support the work of civic renewal. I share three insights. 1. This work doesn't scale, it spreads. 2. Don't go for speed, go for traction. 3. Use your power to hold space open. (1/n) medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Building a civic statecraft

To support civic renewal, government needs new capabilities

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A new post on the capabilities government needs to support the work of civic renewal. I share three insights. 1. This work doesn't scale, it spreads. 2. Don't go for speed, go for traction. 3. Use your power to hold space open. (1/n) medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Building a civic statecraft

To support civic renewal, government needs new capabilities

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Finally getting around to reading the frankly embarrassing number of @jamestplunkett.bsky.social long-form essays that I've been piling up for months. This one on government disciplines is excellent. I hope that @policycamp.bsky.social has some positive influence. medium.com/@jamestplunk...

The disciplines theory of government

Are legacy disciplines dragging the whole operation down?

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Brilliant job alert! 👇 And a wonderful initiative more generally.

Hilary Cottam@hilarycottam.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If you are in the UK Civil Service- a DD or aspiring DD - this is an opportunity to work with me, England’s Upland Communities and @DefraGovUK on system transformation - please share widely a fantastic opportunity for a brilliant candidate civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j…

New post: Can we use 'test and learn' methods in the NHS? What would it take to do so? Long but important! I think this is one of the biiggest delivery questions facing the UK government. medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Can Test & Learn methods save the NHS?

On the challenge of using these methods here

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New post: Can we use 'test and learn' methods in the NHS? What would it take to do so? Long but important! I think this is one of the biiggest delivery questions facing the UK government. medium.com/@jamestplunk...

Can Test & Learn methods save the NHS?

On the challenge of using these methods here

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NEW @kinship.works for @jrf-uk.bsky.social Help us map the disciplines of civic renewal - We know community-led approaches to reviving civic life (Big Local, etc) work - But we lack understanding of disciplines/professional roles that enable it What should we look at? medium.com/kinship-work...

Help us map disciplines of civic renewal — roles & skills communities need to revitalise civic life

Help us map the disciplines of civic renewal — the roles and skills communities need to revitalise civic life If helping us map public sector reform communities wasn’t enough… We’re starting …

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Excited to be finally giving a talk at TransformGov! 👏👇

State of the Future@sotf.org.uk · 6mo ago

Next week, it's the 14th @transformgovtalks.bsky.social Join us on Weds 25th, 6pm, MoJ/online, with: - @liamhawkes.bsky.social & Violette Gadenne, CoLab, Home Office, on service design in a spending review - @jamestplunkett.bsky.social @kinship.works on the energy at the edges luma.com/q19znan6

A final Friday share of this new post, published this week. How do we activate citizen agency? Could we build an activation layer at the edges of public institutions? 👇

James Plunkett@jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 New today: How to activate the agency of citizens. 📣 A post exploring methods for activating citizenship, using a case study of the Citizen First model developed by @publiclife.bsky.social and currently running in the Liverpool City Region. 1/n medium.com/@jamestplunk...

One for Wednesday. With bonus metaphors… 👇👀

James Plunkett@jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 New today: How to activate the agency of citizens. 📣 A post exploring methods for activating citizenship, using a case study of the Citizen First model developed by @publiclife.bsky.social and currently running in the Liverpool City Region. 1/n medium.com/@jamestplunk...

📣 New today: How to activate the agency of citizens. 📣 A post exploring methods for activating citizenship, using a case study of the Citizen First model developed by @publiclife.bsky.social and currently running in the Liverpool City Region. 1/n medium.com/@jamestplunk...

How to activate citizen agency

If communities have half the answer, what is the other half?

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