This is excellent for anyone interested in place-based working with communities as a change from fragmented silo services that serve the organisation or system rather the person, the family, the community 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

With mental health services at breaking point, this is the latest instalment of a desperate culture war designed to target blame rather than deal with the issues.

Prioritising #community voices, nurturing children and families, and paving the way for healthier future in #NorthEast and #NorthCumbria with Sam Allen 💙 on #RadicalReformers . Hear more about her pragmatic approach to prioritisation across @nenc_nhs here:mutualventures.co.uk/post/radical-r…

Murmurs of a post-election revival of the 2009 #TotalPlace policy prompt reflection on its relevance today. Could its #collaborative approach work for #PublicServices in 2024? Read John Copps' reflections here: mutualventures.co.uk/post/total-pla… #PlaceLeadership #PublicSector

Mark Owers draws on his experience of #regionalisation in adoption and shares ten key strategies that local authority clusters can apply when establishing their Regional Fostering Recruitment Support Hubs. mutualventures.co.uk/post/raa-lesso… #PrioritisingPublicServices

Certainly not in my personal experience. I think I saw the same set of rejigged PowerPoint slides, with no action or tangible difference made to people, about 50 times 🤷‍♀️

My job over the last 40 years has been writing strategies. Depressingly none of them have worked. Not a single one 😐 What has worked are the compelling stories about a place, a partnership & the people. We can waste so much time on pointless documents that people can’t remember.

Fingers crossed we may see Total Place mark ll! @profdonnahall

Loved this #Radicalreformers interview with North East Lincolnshire Council's Rob Walsh. Definitely one for you if you are interested in the art of developing a 'place' in terms of local economy and collaboration within public services. Inspiring stuff. Rob Walsh ✨ Donna Hall ✨

Strategies are completely pointless. They take up all our time & energy preparing them, presenting them to boards & management but they just don’t make a difference. It’s STORIES that really make a difference. Develop a compelling story of place, of community & of relationships.

Brutal honesty & transparency is the start of any genuine change. Public services (including the NHS) in their current form are broken. Pretending otherwise to “bolster morale” will do the opposite. We are teetering on the brink & a total reset, not a positivity drive, is needed.

What if the 'national' in National Health Service is the problem?

Great piece by Rosie Beacon for the The New Statesman on why radical devolution is needed 👇

newstatesman.com/spotlight/heal…

Spot on from Rosie Beacon Reform #ReimaginingHealth #CloseEnoughtoCare 👏👏👏👏👏👏

🎙️ #RadicalReformers : #TransformationalLeadership in #LocalGov . Rob Walsh of North East Lincolnshire Council joined Andrew Laird to share the journey of revitalising a region. North East Lincolnshire Council sets the bar for #innovation and #collaboration in #PublicServiceExcellence . Listen here ⬇ mutualventures.co.uk/post/radical-r…

“Total Place” pilots showed us the way back in 2009; our learning in Greater Manchester & other pilots discovered place-based budgets on their own aren’t enough; we need system, asset-based “total person” preventative support. Total Place - Total Person. Radical place leadership!

1/2 Strongly recommend this article by my colleague Liz Roe on the Total Place policy and the lessons which can be drawn from it. Links closely to the work we are currently doing at Mutual Ventures w/ ✨ Donna Hall ✨ on Radical Place Leadership.

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Great thread Andrew Laird and precisely the point about once and for all embedding the nhs in place that I made to The MJ yesterday👍👍👍👍👍 and I’ve similar feedback from current & former colleagues working in the nhs “local” system about far too much central control.

Liz Roe revisits #TotalPlace , uncovering valuable lessons for the future of #PublicServices . With elections on the horizon and budgets tightening, could Total Place principles provide a guidelight for organising local services in a different way? mutualventures.co.uk/post/revisitin…