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Reimagining Place-Based Health: A major new Commission from NLGN and Collaborate

Posted by Collaborate Date 7th July 2015 Category Collaborative Places, Diagnostic, News, Shared Space

NLGN and Collaborate launched a major new commission imagining the future of place-based health. Chaired by Lord Victor Adebowale, the Commission will tackle the most challenging questions facing both the NHS and local councils today as they struggle with rising demand, reducing budgets and the changing demographics of their service users.

Collaborate is an independent CIC focusing on the thinking, culture and practice of cross-sector collaboration in services to the public.

We care about outcomes and values, not sectors

Our work actively promotes services to the public that engage government, business and civil society, blurring traditional boundaries and prioritising outcomes over sector preconceptions

We support collaborative citizens

Our starting point is the voice of the citizen, family and community, and our approach will always look for ways to support their capability, independence and resilience.

We work with people who want genuine collaboration

Our clients and partners are people who want to collaborate to deliver better outcomes – we help them to make it happen through different thinking, culture and practice

We offer honest relationships, not pre-baked solutions

Our way of working is different – we believe that the best approaches are co-created; we work hard to convene networks, broker relationships and be ‘comfortable with uncomfortable’

We build readiness and unlock capacity

Our approach is to enable others to find their own solutions; we use independent evidence and diagnostic insight, then build capability in others to make delivery sustainable

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What we do

Diagnostic

We use deliberative research to hold a mirror to systems, organisations and people, developing clear insights and uncovering evidence to support action by asking the right questions

Shared Space

We hold the tension inherent in all good collaborations by brokering relationships between individuals and across sectors, enabling collaborative problem solving

Readiness

We help you do the dark work that builds collaboration, focusing on both behaviours and infrastructure, and working with both leaders and those operating across the system

Delivery

We help you develop approaches that deliver against your collaborative ambition – through impact evaluation, performance incentives, and accountability frameworks

Our thinking

Latest thought leadership

A New Funding Ecology – A Blueprint for Action

Posted by Henry Kippin Date 10th December 2015 Category Collaborative Behaviours, Collaborative Behaviours Report, Collaborative Systems, Collaborative Systems Report, Report

This report is the second in our Funding Ecology programme, building on our previous work in this area to shape a vital debate about changing models of social change as well as the roles of the social, public and private sectors in funding and supporting it.

Supporting Social Change: The Role Of Social Investment

Posted by Guest Contributor Date 10th December 2015 Category Collaborative Behaviours, Collaborative Behaviours Report, Collaborative Systems, Collaborative Systems Report, Report

Supporting Social Change: The Role of Social Investment explores the emerging relationship between grant-making and social investment, and the ways in which independent funders can work together to develop new financial models to support social change.

Behaving like a System?

Posted by Collaborate Date 30th November 2015 Category Collaborative Systems, Collaborative Systems Report, Diagnostic, News, Readiness, Report, Shared Space

'Behaving Like a System?' sets out to explore the preconditions for systems change in a place. It unpicks the critical behaviours and vision that makes system change more likely, more deliverable and more sustainable.

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Managing Demand: Building Future Public Services

Posted by Anna Randle Date 1st May 2014 Category Collaborative Services, Collaborative Services Report, Delivery, Report

'Managing Demand: Building Future Public Services' explores the potential of Demand Management to address the unprecedented challenges of rising demand and changing demographics within a tough climate of fiscal constraints.

‘From delivering services to collaborating for outcomes’ – Making Good

Posted by Henry Kippin Date 11th November 2014 Category Collaborative Behaviours, Collaborative Behaviours Report, Collaborative Markets, Collaborative Markets Report, Report

Collaborate's Executive Director Dr Henry Kippin contributes to the debate about the future of the voluntary sector in a full volume of essays, 'Making Good: the future of the voluntary sector'.

Beyond Big Contracts: Commissioning public services for better outcomes

Posted by Collaborate Date 24th January 2014 Category Collaborative Markets Report, Report

'Beyond Big Contracts' explores the readiness of public service commissioners and providers to meet citizens’ needs in an increasingly complex commissioning landscape.

Place-Based Routes out of the Brexit Crisis

Posted by Collaborate Date 7th July 2016 Category Blog, Collaborative Places, Collaborative Services

The Brexit vote strains the social cohesion that has sustained our welfare model for decades. We need to re-think how we design and deliver services and place is the key.

The importance of being inclusive

Posted by Anna Randle Date 15th June 2016 Category Blog, Collaborative Systems, Delivery, Diagnostic, Readiness

In an article published in this week’s MJ, Anna Randle argues that the RSA’s Inclusive Growth Commission should address the role of public services in creating a more inclusive society and economy - the pre-conditions which will enable the value of more obvious economic inclusion priorities, such as connectivity and skills agendas, to be realised.

Understanding Systems Infrastructure

Posted by Anna Randle Date 13th June 2016 Category Blog, Collaborative Behaviours, Collaborative Citizens, Collaborative Markets, Collaborative Places, Readiness

Following on from our Behaving like a System report last year, Anna Randle sets out the focus of the next stage of our research on ‘system infrastructure’