When Collaborate welcomed 60 public sector leaders, councillors, and community practitioners to our online session, Beyond Structures: An Ecosystem Approach to Neighbourhood Governance, the message…
One in three children in the UK and one in four Scottish children live in poverty. Those in lone-parent families face even worse levels of…
In 2016-17, Collaborate worked with Sutton Council and partners to develop the Sutton Plan which set out a shared vision and priorities for the borough….
A framework for assessing and deepening Human Learning Systems practice
How VCSE providers are innovating to bring Short Breaks to more disabled young people in Gloucestershire than ever before. Part 1 of this blog described…
How VCSE providers are innovating to bring Short Breaks to more disabled young people in Gloucestershire than ever before. One year ago, we started our…
The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill has been passed into law, introducing a new requirement for local authorities to establish effective neighbourhood governance. Done…
Victor Adebowale looks at how to move from rhetoric to reality and make collaboration between local government and health possible. This article was written by…
Following on from our previous interview about neighbourhood working in Wigan, this month Dawn Plimmer spoke with Kristy Docherty from the Edinburgh Futures Institute and…
We are excited to announce that Collaborate will be working as part of the Voices for Health Equity Partnership to lead the new phase of CQC’s Public Engagement Network.
We’re looking for a highly numerate, well-organised person to support our finance and operations functions, being vital to the smooth and effective running of the…
To seize the opportunities local government reorganisation presents, councils need to be intentional about how they ‘end’. This is a version of an opinion piece…
In 2023–24, Collaborate worked alongside IPPR North to support Wigan Council to review The Deal and explore what a “new era” could look like for…
The challenges we face as a society are complex and no one person or organisation can solve them alone. Complexity is the result of the…
By bringing together a leading national law firm, a national governance charity and renowned systems change specialists, we aim to help councils shape the future…
Learning Cycles are at the heart of the Human Learning Systems (HLS) approach to organising and governing public service, offering a structured yet flexible way to make sense of complex work, generate insights, innovate and improve practice. They are also core to how we at Collaborate help organisations to work in complexity.
Five pioneering councils have teamed up with Collaborate CIC to share insight, solve problems collectively and build their influence – all with a common goal: to work with people, not impose solutions on them.
Human Learning Systems (HLS) like a number of other public service reform big ideas, places relationships at the heart of public service. Inherent in this,…
What if more strategies were developed collaboratively and through participatory approaches? What if they drew on the widest possible range of insight and data to…
Practical insights from pioneering places The need for reform in public services has never been stronger or more urgent. Since taking office the Government has…