Tag: Place-Based Public Service Reform

As the challenges facing places become more complex and expectations of public services continue to change, the ways we transform public services needs to evolve. Delivering better outcomes increasingly depends […]

20th July, 2026

Organisational Design • Place-Based Public Service Reform • Transformation

This article was first published in The MJ on 26 May 2026. It’s time to seize the opportunity of Total Place 2.0 to help bring about the public services we […]

28th May, 2026

Place-Based Public Service Reform • Public Services • Total Place

Our latest podcast looks at an ambitious, community-powered programme to tackle health inequalities and improve population health in North East Sheffield. The North East Neighbourhoods programme was set up by […]

30th March, 2026

Community engagement • Community Power • Participatory Budgeting • Place-Based Public Service Reform

Participatory budgeting (PB) is rightly celebrated as a way to give communities influence over funding decisions — from neighbourhood grants and service priorities to whole area budgets. When it works […]

17th March, 2026

Community engagement • Community Power • Participatory Budgeting • Place-Based Public Service Reform

At this event we will share practical learning and insight from our Places on a mission: pioneering local statecraft in an era of uncertainty report, toolkit and case studies. A […]

23rd February, 2026

Mission-Led Governing • Place-Based Public Service Reform

Right now, everyone is talking about neighbourhoods. From the ambition for a neighbourhood health service in the NHS 10 year plan, to Pride in Place, this new spirit of intent […]

5th February, 2026

Community Power • Neighbourhoods • Place-Based Public Service Reform

As I step into the role of New Local Interim Chief Executive, and as we begin 2026, I find myself reflecting on how far the shared work of building a […]

2nd January, 2026

Community Power • LGR • Local Councils • Place-Based Public Service Reform • Power

As we close off our formal member sessions for 2025, our Head of Network, Laura Payne, reflects on a year of learning through change and complexity. 2025 has asked a […]

17th December, 2025

Community Power • Digital • LGR • Local Councils • Neighbourhoods • Place-Based Public Service Reform • Prevention

In a guest post for New Local, co-founder of Stories of Change, John Hitchin, shares his thoughts on the future of place-based work. Local government is all about work in […]

18th November, 2025

John Hitchin • Place-Based Public Service Reform • Strategy and leadership

New Local is working with Local Trust to draw on the learning from Big Local and other research to explore how to support the establishment and long-term sustainability of community-run […]

29th October, 2025

Big Local • Future Councils • Local Trust • Place-Based Public Service Reform

‘If you were going to design English local government from scratch, you wouldn’t have come up with this.’ Versions of this observation will be familiar to many in and around […]

18th July, 2025

Community Power • English Devo Bill • LGR • Local Councils • Place-Based Public Service Reform

It’s been a year since Labour came into power, bringing with them a commitment to a different way of ‘doing’ government centred around five missions for national renewal. One year […]

9th July, 2025

Future Councils • ICC • Mission-Led Governing • Place-Based Public Service Reform • Strategic authorities • Strategy and leadership

Responding to Government announcements today, Place-Based Public Service Budgets report co-authors, New Local Chief Executive Jessica Studdert and Professorial Research Fellow at Southampton University John Denham, said: “We are pleased to see […]

3rd July, 2025

Community Power • Future Councils • Place-Based Public Service Reform • Total Place

New Local is working in partnership with Inner Circle Consulting on a practical research project on mission-led local government. Local governments (councils and combined authorities) are pioneering new forms of […]

17th June, 2025

Future Councils • ICC • Mission-Led Governing • Place-Based Public Service Reform • Strategic authorities