by Hannah Goulding | Apr 15, 2021 | Adult social care, Health and NHS improvements, Local government transformation, Place
Like in Apollo 13, we invented a way to fit a square peg into a round hole… rapidly By Sophie Ellis, Director of Customer Delivery, Resources Department, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council It’s just over a year since we set up our Covid Hub contact and...
by Michael Kitts | Feb 18, 2021 | Adult social care, Being IMPOWER, Local government transformation
Tried and tested behavioural science techniques help public sector organisations to embed a behavioural focus in their response to the coronavirus crisis. Over the past ten months, we have witnessed something close to a renaissance in behavioural science thinking and...
by Taryn Eves | Nov 10, 2020 | Local government transformation
During Solace’s recent Virtual Learning Week I attended an online session on the impact of Covid on the workforce, presented by Susan Parsonage, Chief Executive of Wokingham Borough Council (a client of ours) and Professor Cary Cooper of Manchester Business School....
by Jon Ainger | Sep 2, 2020 | Being IMPOWER, Local government transformation
Local authority areas need to become expert at the seven-event heptathlon they now face This article first appeared in The MJ. I am a fan of athletics of all types, but I have particular reverence for multi-eventers: decathletes and heptathletes. Watching old clips of...
by Sophie Ellis | Jul 28, 2020 | Adult social care, Health and NHS improvements
At last week’s online ADASS Summer Conference, many attendees reflected on how Covid had starkly exposed inequalities across different communities and the impact this can have on a person’s life. The energy in the virtual-room was clear: participants were eager to...
