Tag: Covid-19
Covid-19 has brought unimaginable hardship to local communites, but it has also sparked a shift in mindset, culture and practice that helped many get through the pandemic and will provide valuable lessons for how councils and communities combine to...
13th January, 2021
Build Back Better • Community Power • Covid-19 • Local government • Shifting the Balance • Strategy and leadership
Over six months, Pippa Coutts and her colleagues at Carnegie Trust talked to communities across the UK to gather their experience of the Covid pandemic. The resulting ‘Listening Project’ reflects on what has been learnt during this time and...
9th December, 2020
A vlog from Katie Kelly, Depute Chief Executive - Safer Communities, at East Ayshire Council in Scotland. In 2013, Katie helped set up the council's Vibrant Communities Service - a ground-breaking approach to sharing power between the local authority...
7th December, 2020
Build Back Better • Community Power • Community Power and Me • Covid-19 • Interview • Mobilisation • New Local Network • Scotland • Strategy and leadership
Watch a video of our panel discussion around Towards Resilience: Redesigning our systems for a better future in partnership with Local Trust.
30th October, 2020
The decision to impose Covid restrictions on Greater Manchester is about far more than a political spat, says Adam Lent, it is an extreme example of our rulers' centralist mentalities. A mentality that keeps people powerless and hence keeps...
21st October, 2020
Covid-19 • Devolution and reorganisation • Greater Manchester • Political Systems
The paper identifies five pillars that need to form the centre piece of any approach: economic resilience, public sector resilience, community resilience, environmental resilience and workforce resilience.
12th October, 2020
Build Back Better • Community Power • Covid-19 • Place building • Resilience
Amid doubts about the government's plans for a devolution white paper, Adam Lent outlines three principles to guide a new approach to reform.
9th October, 2020
Central government • Covid-19 • Devolution • Devolution and reorganisation
The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) turn their attention to what life might look like after lockdown, and the opportunities for change this might bring.
29th July, 2020
Many relationships between councils and communities were transformed by the COVID-19 pandemic. How do we sustain this into a post-pandemic future?
27th July, 2020
Kicking off a new conversation about Resilient Britain, chief executive of Local Trust, Matt Leach, and director of NLGN, Adam Lent, set out their plan to bring together a network of people and organisations to design and deliver plans...
24th July, 2020
Build Back Better • Covid-19 • Employment • Public Services • Resilience
As councils prepare for recovery from COVID-19, we asked leaders in local government how their councils are preparing for a potential second wave
23rd July, 2020
What have we learned from monitoring innovative local responses to COVID-19?
16th July, 2020
This report argues that the Mutual Aid phenomenon is a powerful demonstration what’s possible when communities come together.
13th July, 2020
Community Power • Covid-19 • Mutual Aid • Podcast • Powerful Communities • Third sector and civil society • Volunteering
Across the country, thousands of Mutual Aid groups have emerged, taking on vital work and supporting the most vulnerable people in their communities through this unprecedented disaster. The flourishing of these groups raises many questions, particularly for those of...
13th July, 2020
We're talking to people leading change in local government about their work, their place, and the pandemic.
10th July, 2020
Local authorities are indispensable in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. What are they doing to meet the challenge?
3rd July, 2020
Rory Palmer, former deputy mayor of Leicester, tracks the governments over-centralised approach to lockdown.
1st July, 2020
Local authorities are indispensable to our COVID response. How are they going about meeting the challenge?
26th June, 2020
Alex Fox, CEO of Shared Lives Plus, argues that we need to see a rapid shift from the ‘command and control’ leadership style which arguably saved the NHS a few weeks ago, to a much more devolved and collaborative...
22nd June, 2020
Build Back Better • Covid-19 • Public Services • Social Care
There have been smiles and tears, exhilaration and complete exhaustion. The past months seem like a year and the normality of the time before the pandemic seems a lifetime ago. Yet in such a short time we have achieved...
22nd June, 2020
Local authorities are indispensable to our response to the pandemic. So how are they stepping up to the challenge?
18th June, 2020
We talk to people leading change in local government about their work, their place and the pandemic.
17th June, 2020
Local authorities are indispensable to our response to the crisis. So how are they meeting the challenge?
12th June, 2020
This report summarises findings from an event held with the New Local Government Network (NLGN) on the changing relationship between communities and public services during and beyond COVID-19.
9th June, 2020
Build Back Better • Community Power • Covid-19 • Public Services
In a new report, we explore how COVID is changing the relationship between public services and communities.
9th June, 2020
Build Back Better • Community Power • Covid-19 • Public Services
How can deliberative forums be used to engage and mobilise communities?
8th June, 2020
Local authorities are indispensable to our response to the crisis. So how are councils meeting the challenge?
4th June, 2020
In our Decades in Days series, we talk to the people leading change in local government. They tell us about their work, their place, and the effect of COVID-19 on both. We find out how they are dealing with...
2nd June, 2020
25/5/20 – 29/5/20 Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information...
29th May, 2020
Throughout the pandemic central government has worked against the grain of local energy, but hope can be found in our communities and councils, writes Jessica Studdert. Councils’ confidence in the economy has fallen dramatically, according to the latest findings...
28th May, 2020
As the COVID-19 crisis unfolded, we asked leaders in local government how their councils are coping with the challenges of this crisis. Here are the three things we’ve learned from our latest Leadership Index survey: Councils have been responding...
28th May, 2020
18/5/20 – 22/5/20 Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information...
21st May, 2020
The Mutual Aid phenomenon is a powerful demonstration what’s possible when communities come together. So how does it continue?
18th May, 2020
Build Back Better • Charities • Covid-19 • Mutual Aid • Volunteering
11/5/20 – 15/5/20 Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information...
15th May, 2020
04/5/20 – 08/5/20 Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information...
7th May, 2020
Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services
27/4/20 – 01/5/20 Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information...
1st May, 2020
Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services
Adam Lent, Director of the New Local Government Network, says we urgently need a post-pandemic recovery strategy for the public as well as the private sector. While the UK struggles to get its head around a lockdown exit plan,...
27th April, 2020
If you live in the UK today and have a disability, you are twice as likely to be unemployed than someone who is not disabled – a fact so well-known that it has been named the ‘disability employment gap’...
24th April, 2020
20/4/20 – 24/4/20 Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information...
24th April, 2020
Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services
Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information that keeps local...
17th April, 2020
Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services
After years of enforced slumber, the state is starting to stir. The signs of this were there even before the pandemic hit in full, with Rishi Sunak’s March budget promising massive increases in areas like infrastructure spending. The COVID-19...
14th April, 2020
Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information that keeps local...
9th April, 2020
Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services
Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information that keeps local...
3rd April, 2020
Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services
These are unsettling times – there is much to fear and much to lament. But of all the developments of the last few weeks, the one that I’ve found most head-in-hands-depressing is the emerging phenomenon of ordinary people blaming...
27th March, 2020
Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information that keeps local...
27th March, 2020
Community Power • Councils Respond • Covid-19 • Public Services
It feels like only a cliché will do as a title for this article. Maybe this tells you something about my writing ability – but, maybe, just as love-songs on the radio only make sense when you’re in love,...
24th March, 2020
A deep global slowdown is a gift to the authoritarians. Adam Lent argues democrats need to unite around a vision of politically empowered communities to see them off. @adamjlent According to the OECD the world is heading for a...
24th March, 2020
Adam Lent argues we need to start thinking now about a post-pandemic plan focused on building stronger communities and a resilient economy. As is often the case with a crisis, Britain is channeling the Second World War. Talk of...
20th March, 2020
Covid-19 • Economy and business • Employment • Public Health
Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information that keeps local...
1st January, 1970
Local authorities are indispensable in our current crisis and are therefore under enormous pressure. They manage the public services that people are increasingly reliant on, support the most vulnerable people in our communities, and hold information that keeps local...
1st January, 1970