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…
Since early 2021, Collaborate and the British Science Association (BSA) have been working with communities through Ideas Fund, an equitable, relational programme that foregrounds partnerships…
With the appointment of a new minister, MHCLG has an opportunity to refocus local government reorganisation and make sure it achieves the impact the effort deserves.
With the appointment of a new minister, MHCLG has an opportunity to refocus local government reorganisation and make sure it achieves the impact the effort deserves.
This blog was co-authored by Leigh Brown and Naomi Diamond.We’ve been exploring what kind of leadership is needed for Human Learning Systems (HLS) – and…
Evaluators are objective experts and final arbiters, working retrospectively with data that matters because it can be counted. Sound familiar? At Collaborate, we take a…
What if research collaboration was less about exchanging evidence and insight across organisations, and more about learning together? Our new report invites universities and their…
Across the UK, local authorities, health and community partnerships are working hard to give every child the best start in life. But they’re operating within…
“The bigger you go, the less you know” Collaborate has worked with Test Valley Borough Council to build the case for why place-based, relational approaches…