Digital future of local services

I was on the front page of the Guardian once. I’d done a blog on AI for MHCLG, the Guardian quoted the blog and would normally write that ‘A spokesperson said…’ but in this case included my name as a civil servant and led to quite a squeaky moment in the morning when I got…

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Commissioning for outcomes

For commissioners, the outcome is King. It’s the discovery of outcomes that underpinned Every Child Matters, genuine co-production with families, and kindled the spark of systems thinking in children’s services. An outcome can be the tangible change or result for a child, young person or family. Or at the motherhood-and-apple-pie end of the spectrum, we…

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