Reports and research
Innovating better ways of living in later life: context, examples and opportunities
1 May 2010 | Authors: Carmel O’Sullivan, Diogo Vasconcelos, Geoff Mulgan,
The paper looks at the changing facts of ageing as both a challenge and an opportunity. The focus is in particular on the many ways in which societies are innovating better ways of living longer, better ways of providing support
The Capital Ambition guide to behaviour change
1 May 2010 | Authors: Sophie Hostick-Boakye, Vicki Sellick,
Can public agencies succeed in changing individual behaviour to make society greener, healthier, more caring, less anti-social? Increasingly, local councils, health and other public bodies are trying to do this – because desirable social outcomes (or specific targets such as
The End of Regeneration? Improving what matters on small housing estates
1 April 2010 | Authors: Corinne Cordes, Dick Muskett, Mandeep Hothi, Saffron Woodcraft,
This toolkit aims to encourage local authorities, housing associations and other public agencies to think differently about how to break the cycle of entrenched poverty and disadvantage on small housing estates. The ideas, approaches and lessons in this toolkit are
Innovation and ideas development – a summary
1 April 2010 | Authors: Sophie Hostick-Boakye, Vicki Sellick,
This paper rounds up the work of the London Collaborative from May 2009: it includes three innovations methods, each introduced to the London Leadership Network and explored through a practical project targeting a pressing social need. The paper outlines: Highlights
Innovation in tough times
1 April 2010 | Authors: Sophie Hostick-Boakye, Vicki Sellick,
This paper explores social innovation in the current context of public sector spending cuts and a revitalized drive towards efficiencies in London’s public services. It captures outcomes of two London Collaborative ideas evenings with the London Leadership Network, held in
The Open Book of Social Innovation
1 March 2010 | Authors: Geoff Mulgan, Robin Murray,
With input from hundreds of organisations, this publication explores the methods and tools for innovation being used across the world and across the different sectors.
Innovation and value: new tools for local government in tough times
1 March 2010 | Authors: Nicola Bacon,
In 2010, there was widespread awareness that the scale of budget cuts needed was beyond the domain of what can be delivered by traditional efficiency programmes. The key questions were how to manage the approach to efficiency? How to make
Opening the doors to apprenticeships
1 February 2010 | Authors: Bethia McNeil, Dr Marcia Brophy,
Apprenticeships form one of the four main learning routes for young people aged 14-19, and will play a critical role in achieving 100 per cent participation under the Raising of the Participation Age from 2013. Significant numbers of young people,
The State of Happiness
1 February 2010 | Authors: Anna Shandro, Geoff Mulgan, Dr Marcia Brophy, Nina Mguni,
The State of Happiness brings together four years of groundbreaking work based on in-depth pilots – from teaching resilience to children in schools to promoting neighbourliness – with three councils in very different areas of the country: Manchester, Hertfordshire and
Weathering the storm – Negotiating Transitions in Britain Today
30 January 2010 | Authors: Beth Watts,
This report looks at how people manage difficult and traumatic transitions. For some transitions such as leaving prison or care, unemployment or the end of a relationship can trigger a positive change. For others a difficult transition can undermine and
Never Again: avoiding the mistakes of the past
30 January 2010 | Authors: Nicola Bacon,
From the projects in Paris suburbs, to Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, to Broadwater Farm and Park Hill in Sheffield, high hopes and dreams have soured as, over time, ambitious new developments have become the housing of last resort for the most desperate.
Digging for the Future
1 January 2010 | Authors: Charles Leadbeater,
Where might we turn for inspiration for a comprehensive programme for radical change on the scale required to match the crisis we are in? A good start would be with a bunch of men in southern England, in April 1649,