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by Matthew Horne<>So has Ed Balls taken his foot of the accelerator and what we really need is another big push from Sanctuary Buildings or is this the death knell of centralised efforts<> to manage the performance of the school system and the government needs to come up with a new model of improving</></>... more

by Anthea H0llist<>Yesterday, I was asked to read a piece of research that compared taxes and benefits in 1979, 1997 and 2008. I was a bit apprehensive to 1) read about taxes, 2) read about how worst off we are than 29 years ago and 3) read about taxes (as you may have guessed this is not a favorit</>... more

By Peter Baeck<>Every successful social innovator or movement has succeeded because it has planted the seed of an idea in many minds. (Mulgan, Geoff, Social Innovation, What it is, Why it Matters and how it can be accelerated.  (Mulgan, Geoff, Social Innovation, What it is, Why it Matters and how i</>... more

by John Craig<>Matthew Horne and I attended and helped to facilitate a Cabinet Office event last week with the Permanent Secretaries of key government departments and third sector Chief Executives.  Stephen Bubb from ACEVO gave a version of this presentation.  It reminds us that today the third sec</>... more

by Alec Patton<>From 2006-2008, DCSF invested £40 million in order to train and employ ”Parent Support Advisers” (PSAs) in 20 local authorities, with the Training and Development Agency for schools (TDA), which allocated funding, developed training tools, and was in charge of dissemination. The PSA</>... more

by John Craig<>This week, I facillitated a workshop on behalf of the Innovators Council, an independent group of impressive individuals set up by the Cabinet Office to challenge the Government around their support for innovation.  The idea of the workshop was to hear from innovators themselves – fr</>... more

by John CraigSpot the Government department.  It spends more than 6% of its budget on R&D, runs an open innovation system to which anyone can contribute any proposal and deliberately forgoes IP on its investments to to encourage innovation and growth.  Give up?  It’s the Ministry of Defence.<>I met</>... more