Reports and research

Scaling New Heights

1 July 2010 | Authors: Geoff Mulgan, Jitinder Kohli,

President Clinton once said, “nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.” The question of scaling is a great issue for any progressive

Cohesive Communities

1 July 2010 | Authors: Alessandra Buonfino, Geoff Mulgan, Rushanara Ali, Sarah Hewes,

This report was commissioned by Local Government Improvement and Development to investigate how local authorities and the voluntary and community sector (VCS) can work more productively together to build empowered and cohesive communities. The research took place over a period

Listen, Participate, Transform: A social media framework for local government

30 June 2010 | Authors: Mandeep Hothi,

This think-piece, the second in a series from the Young Foundation’s Local 2.0 project, provides local authorities with a simple, practical framework to base their social media activity on. For those working in local government, social media is soon to

Opening Doors to Apprenticeships 2: Reflecting on ways forward

1 June 2010 | Authors: Bethia McNeil, Hannah Walsh, Kirsty Anderson, Marcia Brophy,

Opening Doors to Apprenticeships: Reflecting on ways forward is the second of two linked publications, following on from Opening doors to Apprenticeships: Setting the Scene. This report considers the practical next steps that need to be taken in order to

Innovating better ways of living in later life: context, examples and opportunities

1 May 2010 | Authors: Carmel O’Sullivan, Diogo Vasconcelos, Geoff Mulgan,

The paper looks at the changing facts of ageing as both a challenge and an opportunity. The focus is in particular on the many ways in which societies are innovating better ways of living longer, better ways of providing support

The Capital Ambition guide to behaviour change

1 May 2010 | Authors: Sophie Hostick-Boakye, Vicki Sellick,

Can public agencies succeed in changing individual behaviour to make society greener, healthier, more caring, less anti-social? Increasingly, local councils, health and other public bodies are trying to do this – because desirable social outcomes (or specific targets such as

The End of Regeneration? Improving what matters on small housing estates

1 April 2010 | Authors: Corinne Cordes, Dick Muskett, Mandeep Hothi, Saffron Woodcraft,

This toolkit aims to encourage local authorities, housing associations and other public agencies to think differently about how to break the cycle of entrenched poverty and disadvantage on small housing estates. The ideas, approaches and lessons in this toolkit are

Innovation and ideas development – a summary

1 April 2010 | Authors: Sophie Hostick-Boakye, Vicki Sellick,

This paper rounds up the work of the London Collaborative from May 2009: it includes three innovations methods, each introduced to the London Leadership Network and explored through a practical project targeting a pressing social need. The paper outlines: Highlights

Innovation in tough times

1 April 2010 | Authors: Sophie Hostick-Boakye, Vicki Sellick,

This paper explores social innovation in the current context of public sector spending cuts and a revitalized drive towards efficiencies in London’s public services. It captures outcomes of two London Collaborative ideas evenings with the London Leadership Network, held in

The Open Book of Social Innovation

1 March 2010 | Authors: Geoff Mulgan, Robin Murray,

With input from hundreds of organisations, this publication explores the methods and tools for innovation being used across the world and across the different sectors.

Innovation and value: new tools for local government in tough times

1 March 2010 | Authors: Nicola Bacon,

In 2010, there was widespread awareness that the scale of budget cuts needed was beyond the domain of what can be delivered by traditional efficiency programmes. The key questions were how to manage the approach to efficiency? How to make

Opening the doors to apprenticeships

1 February 2010 | Authors: Bethia McNeil, Marcia Brophy,

Apprenticeships form one of the four main learning routes for young people aged 14-19, and will play a critical role in achieving 100 per cent participation under the Raising of the Participation Age from 2013. Significant numbers of young people,