Oh wow - I'd never put those two things together. Can't believe that gig was on the loop 🤩

Boys in the Hudd

Some lovely Qs here.

The place leadership/LG finance/regional growth one is a bit of a Frankenstein though...

My favourites -

How can public bodies learn from systemic policy challenges? (7.17)

How best to utilise futures techniques? (7.16)

Where has citizen engagement worked well? (7.20)

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This mission of model of saving the NHS should be #totalplace on steroids, and the English Devo Bill really needs to do something to shift the dial here.

I think this is where proper join up with #localgov can bring so much value - mobilising civic action, tackling the wider determinants but also, crucially, bringing local democratic accountability for experimentation.

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Absolutely agree, and interesting reflections on the devolved nations, which I know much less about.

Some of this potential is what I was getting at with this piece on CAs and building agility into policy making -

medium.com/@QuestionFy/...

Absolutely - I've worked both sides of that fence myself so would be really interested in your reflections.

Yeah. I wonder if we might see other forms of strategic governance emerge to meet different challenges in those places.

If I were a county I'd be interested in whether a MCA could give me some purchase on my ICS to turn it into a more directly accountable LPSB type thing.

Agreed. Also really interesting to see how the policy of universal coverage of strategic planning collides with the policy of filling in the devo map.

Pretty sure there will have to be a few non-consensual unions, and maybe even a conscious uncoupling or two.