…sitting in a place of shame . I was embarrassed that I didn’t know much about our past as a country, about what it meant to work with Māori (let…

…a nutshell, the PPR team worked to pioneer new place based approaches to driving change on complex, systemic challenges. Through these place based transformation programmes we are starting to learn…

…working and meeting (Lokal mittendrin). The house is first and foremost a meeting place for the public. The restaurant Lokal Mittendrin, is an ideal place for meeting the residents. This…

…the eye of the storm. Like many others, we produced learning on the power of crisis-led innovation to create laser-like shared purpose in a place, to take down the existing…

…or cancel virtual appointments. The NHS Framework – right time, right place Some commentators, including campaigning mental health charities, may resist some of these changes, including the closure of hospital…

…to feel welcomed and accepted. This then shifted the idea of Family Hubs as a place where services could be delivered, to places that focus on creating safety for families….

…young people living in Lambeth, aged between 16 and 21, to understand how this period has affected their wellbeing and consider what might be put in place to support them….

…from a rich variety of perspectives. Our panel included experts on politics, economics, learning, poverty and place, and we were joined by innovators from across the UK who are growing…

…places and holistic needs, instead of putting the same services in new places and expecting different things to happen. The development and delivery of hubs is now in full swing…

…UK. In a time of increased pressure to recruit and retain within the sector, support and supervision needs to place an active focus on the wellbeing of the foster carer,…

…for our future as an organisation. In a world of stark inequalities, big social challenges, and ‘bright spots’ illuminating new possibilities, where are the places, how and with whom should…

…you straightaway and booked a place. And I would have felt grateful. Believe me, I’m not annoyed with the people who wrote the letter, far from it. I’m angry with…

…of a paradigm and the rise of a new one in its place. The Berkana Institute’s ‘Two Loops’ model tries to capture how systems change or paradigms shifts can happen…

…building take place. How is it being used? There are some great examples of working across levels in the Systems Sanctuary report, but I want to share a few from…

…within the NHS that truly fulfills the Constitution’s principle to place patients at its heart. 2. Involving patients beyond design and evaluation can drive more sophisticated scaling strategies For NIA…

…opportunity to make a real difference to care leavers’ lives and help them to rehabilitate, but this wasn’t always used effectively. “I need a permanent place to stay so I…

…our place in Aotearoa, it acknowledges our commitment to work in partnership with Māori, and the work we do to enable the people of Aotearoa to thrive and participate fully…

…between adult and adolescent mental health services, and for the design of Hubs for young people to be done in partnership with young people and their families in local places…

…about what their funds will support. Overly directive commissioning stifles innovation by limiting experimentation with new practices or adaptation of an approach to the needs of a specific place or…

…reflecting on the evaluation itself. Committing to consistent and in depth self-reflection can help to ensure that any evaluation which takes place is meaningful to both the programme and the…

…they play a critical role in prevention, helping people to stay well in the first place. With the scope to deliver services holistically, they are also crucial to addressing the…

…innovation programmes that identify, nurture and help to spread innovation, to adopt and adapt innovations that have already been shown to be successful and enable place-based transformation that really sticks….

…‘Degrowth’ movement, which hopes to displace the goal of endless economic growth and focus on the radical changes we need to make to bring our economies in line with the…

…better. In 1997, Donella Meadows, a leading figure in (modern, Western) systems thinking, published a paper called ‘Places to intervene in a system (in increasing order of effectiveness)’. The paper…

…sustainably in relationship with place. Here in Australia, where Aboriginal peoples lived sustainably for over 60,000 years before colonisation, there is so much to learn from Indigenous wisdom about how…

Across multiple disciplines and fields, as organisations and as individuals, we seem to be asking ourselves the same simple question — what next? From politics to place-making, economics to education,…

…a feature. I argue that we are mistaken when we falsely oppose the world of communities (commonly characterized as places where relationships happen), and the world of services (which we…

…all–a place intentionally designed to serve and embrace every individual child in a richly diverse community. “Summit Learning” is a personalised, project-based learning (PBL) curriculum that puts Summit students “in…

…and with Māori, and the work that takes place to build our capability around bi-cultural practice. I believe social innovation embodies my first whakatauki: “E hara taku toa i te…

…have when supporting women and children, and place service users at the centre of the service. In practice, this means having flexibility in the approaches to supporting women and children…

…and places of working. We could create far better places to live and age well, but to do so requires us to take a whole system approach to change and…

…quarter of socio-economic disadvantage and only 5% are in the top quarter. It is a dynamic, diverse and incredibly rewarding place to work. The case for radical change in education…

…points to the need for and potential impact of place-based and whole-systems approaches, which would replace the Troubled Families programme with a strategy to create thriving families and thriving communities….

…regions share a deep pride of place and easy access to natural play spaces. However, each region also has unique cultural and geographic features which shape the opportunities available and…

…platforms for local people to come together to identify and solve the problems of their place, these are not simply technical solutions to big problems. They involve a rewiring of…

…mentally healthy places. It’s an example of innovations that come from, and are given life by, the everyday environments in which people ordinarily live, work, buy, share and socialise. The…

…skills and dispositions best prepare young people for a future that is uncertain. Putting EdTech in its place – rethinking outcomes and learning for the future If we’re serious about…

…in the place and with the people of their choosing Community-based models for good mental health that keep people with mental health conditions well Networks of support for people with…

…edge of care on its head. Rather than wait months for appointments in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar specialists, young people are offered short, medium or respite stays in No Wrong…

…professionals can deal with some of the underlying factors that increase parental conflict — like not having a suitable place to live, or significant financial worries. Successfully developing the workforce…

…such as establishing new infrastructure to facilitate collaboration between the voluntary and health sectors. Once these infrastructures are in place and fulfilling their purpose, it is crucial for projects to…