Public policy consultancy specialising in local governance, local economies and local public service delivery

Southwark, London
Joined June 2010
A very warm day for our team session but made great progress on defining and building our skillset!
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Today in our workshop with @GlosCC we used tablecloths instead of flip charts. People loved the chance to graffiti!
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Snr Consultant Nelly Jones just returned from @TheSRAOrg's #SRAConf2024 inspired by people powered change, co-produced evaluation frameworks, the good bad and ugly of AI, and using tech to engage young people. Plus Jonathan Van-Tam on policy and leadership during the pandemic.
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Today's #BSA36 from @NatCen questions narratives on 'crisis of trust' and 'end of Con/Lab politics' -Majority of public are optimistic scientists do good for society -Divide between Lab / Con voter attitudes on inequality and EU remains strong bsa.natcen.ac.uk
Are you an economist? Will you join us to help our local government clients use economic data to unpack big societal issues and take better decisions? Closing date for our Snr Economic Development Consultant role is 12 June economistjobs.com/job/senior…
Map of the day Social mobility by constituency - from the @SMCommission researchbriefings.parliament…
Map of the day 10 IF >Need to reach every part of the country? >National platform of physical sites? >High recognition rate? >Perceived by public as neutral/trusted? >Used by all socioeconomic groups? 20 THEN>> >=#libraries map by @librarieshacked
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No contest - our #map of the day, maybe even the month, is from @natlibscot and @natlibscotmaps who may actually be geniuses>>> maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/spy/…
Across SE England a near-perfect correlation between knowledge-intensive-jobs in each district and proportion educated to NVQ4+ Our report on skills also shows by 2024 half of all jobs will be done by people with foundation degrees or higher secouncils.gov.uk/wp-content…
We subscribe to various services to do the hard/clever work filtering out the most relevant tender opportunities for us to review... Sometimes they tell us we’re interested in things we never imagined!
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