I came across this report while reviewing public sector reform literature:Final Report: More Effective Social Services – The Treasury (2015) It’s not new, but it’s worth revisiting. Nearly a decade on, many of the issues it identified are still with us. The report is a sobering reminder of how hard it is to shift the…

I’m excited to hear about the new standalone Social Investment Agency. One aspect I particularly like is its focus on emergent practice. This focus extends the original idea and clarifies whatever the Social Wellbeing Agency has been doing. Emergent practice is important for four reasons. First, I know that some of you think that the…

Today social media was full of accounts going off at the idea of social investment. Most of them have not read the literature or explored why it’s intuitively appealing. The idea of social investment has been around for a couple of decades. Like it or not it is one of those policies that will endure…