Work at our level don’t ask us to work at yours
Giles Piercy as part of his involvement in Power to Change’s Community of Practice recently wrote this blog for Power to Change’s website you can read here
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Entries by Giles Piercy
Imagine if almost £100bn of England’s health and social care budget was controlled by communities of less than 8,000 people.
That is a reality in the Faroe Islands. Almost 35% of the Faroe Islands’ health and social care budget is controlled by local councils covering populations ranging from 2,000 to 7,000. Give or take, the Faroes spend a bit more per head on health and social care than we do in England. The Faroes are, […]
When you’re going to spend a lot of our money in our community can we please be asked how best to spend it?
The debate around whether public services should be run by the private sector or the public sector, is one that is often driven by dogma rather than any dispassionate assessment about what will actually be best for people and their communities. One significant absence is the failure to ask: “could the community not do this […]
Eight characteristics of councils that are building stronger more resilient communities
We were commissioned recently to carry out research to try and uncover which upper tier local authorities in England were making genuine progress in terms of building stronger more resilient communities. Through both desk based research and structured interviews what emerged was a set of characteristics of councils who are serious about getting communities to […]
