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📣 We're hiring 📣 Could you be our next Chief Executive? We're looking for a passionate and experienced leader to drive forward our work to make community power the dominant idea shaping policy and practice at national and local levels.

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3 years

. @MichaelMarmot : To follow healthy eating advice, people in bottom 20% would have to spend 74% of their income on food. "They aren't eating unhealthily because they can't cook or follow advice - they are eating unhealthily because they can't afford food." #StrongerThings

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New Report! 🎉 Community Power: The Evidence By @Grace_Pollard1 @jesstud @LucaTiratelli & published in partnership with @LocalTrust Bringing together more evidence than ever before of the impact of community power.

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3 years

We can’t measure tomorrow's approaches by yesterday's standards. Community power is working, but making it mainstream means rethinking how the system measures success.

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2 years

📣 While the cost-of-living crisis tightens its grip on communities across the UK, we have launched a new project with @jrf_uk to understand practice already underway in local areas to tackle deep poverty and destitution and what more could be done in the future. 🧵

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New Local

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1 year

After five fantastic years, @ProfDonnaHall is retiring as New Local Chair. Since joining our Board in 2018, we have benefited hugely from her expertise, energy, kindness and support. Thank you for everything Donna 🌟 👉

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New Local

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1 year

2⃣ days 5⃣5⃣0⃣ people 6⃣ weeks off the waiting list 🆕 The story of how one physio practice used conversations & community power to ease NHS demand. @NHSinnovation @NHSLeadership @thecsp @adamjlent @LaurafinucaneB @natalie_blunt @care_unbound

Joint venture: how an NHS physio waiting list was shrunk in just two days - New Local

Is it possible to significantly reduce health and social care waiting lists overnight? It may seem like a policymaker’s – or patient’s – pipedream. But a new innovation from physios in Sussex...

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New Local

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6 years

We are delighted to announce that Donna Hall is set to become our new Chair. Donna will take over the position of Chair from Dame Jane Roberts in early 2019, following Donna's retirement from Wigan Council as Chief Executive #breakingnews #localgov #womeninleadership

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New Local

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2 years

New research report published today📢 A community-powered NHS: making prevention a reality by @adamjlent @Grace_Pollard1 @jesstud #NHS #IntegratedCareSystems #PrimaryCare #NHSLeaders #NHScommunitypower

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New Local

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3 years

THREAD: Let's talk about... Elinor Ostrom! A researcher who showed how communities solve real problems, "beyond markets and states". The intellectual inspiration for our work on community power. (this is what you get when you go on holiday and leave @stkaye the twitter keys)

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4 years

"You want to focus on reimagining what a new local could look like in your area." Our marvelous Chair @ProfDonnaHall on why we've changed our name from New Local Government Network to New Local. # #BuildBackBetter #communitypower

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2 years

. @nazirafzal on structural racism - people in the very top 100 in the world in their profession tell me they are scared to speak about racism they've encountered because it would be career-ending. That's the scale of the challenge we face. #StrongerThings

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New Local

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4 years

𝑵𝑬𝑾 𝑹𝑬𝑺𝑬𝑨𝑹𝑪𝑯 ⚖️The most successful Covid responses were local ⚖️Communities & councils joined up like never before ⚖️Adapting, Collaborating & Innovating to protect lives ⚖️So how do we sustain this, & really shift the balance? 🧵

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New Local

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3 years

“We know that good health doesn’t start and end in the NHS. It starts in local communities.” @ProfDonnaHall explains why we would love to hear from NHS staff – wherever you work – and citizens on #NHScommunitypower . Submit to our call for evidence:

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New Local

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1 year

What would a community-powered NHS look like? Our grid sets out the limits of traditional state & market paradigms that dominate health provision. A new #CommunityParadigm puts people at the heart of healthcare, centring communities, not services & people, not professionals.

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3 years

“We know that good health doesn’t start and end in the NHS. It starts in local communities.” @ProfDonnaHall explains why we would love to hear from NHS staff – wherever you work – and citizens on how things could be different. #NHScommunitypower

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New Local

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10 months

We’re delighted to welcome Katie Kelly as our Chair 🌟 Over her 30-year career in local gov spanning housing, economic growth, community wealth building, health (+ more), Katie has been a major pioneer of community power & built vast expertise in public service transformation.

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New Local

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1 year

📣 New report 📣 Urgent action is needed in response to deepening poverty in the UK. In partnership w/ @jrf_uk , we’re pleased to launch a new learning report on designing out the most severe forms of hardship in local areas. 👀👉 🧵👇

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New Local

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4 years

We're so excited to tell you that today we've changed our name to 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹. #Localgov has changed a lot in the 25 years since we began, and so have we. Read the story behind our new name & logo, and visit our brand new website:

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2 years

. @ProfDonnaHall on integrated care systems: "There's been a tendency in ICSs to focus on governance structures - who is sitting at what table rather than what are we going to do and how are we going to listen to local people?" #StrongerThings

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2 years

"There’s something really fundamentally human about this, that is not specialist. It’s about human connection & interaction." A GP's surgery in South London is trying something completely new in the #NHS - involving community members in #primarycare . 🧵

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New Local

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4 years

@jaCattell @morettmorett We're doing a lot of work looking at how society can must change to create sustainable services & healthier places. Fundamentally, this means giving more power & resources to communities. Here's a recent blog by @adamjlent on this. Would love to talk!

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New Local

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5 years

We're calling for a 'Community Power Act' to take control from institutions & central government and give it to people in communities. But what should it look like? @adamjlent kicks us off with this blog📜➡️

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New Local

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1 year

The wait is finally over. This is Stronger Things 2023. We’re so excited for you to be part of it. Let the fun begin 🌟 #StrongerThings

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3 years

. @jesstud on the 'evidence paradox' that community power faces: "These are things people really care about, but they don't fit well with how we do policy." Find out more: #StrongerThings

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We can’t measure tomorrow's approaches by yesterday's standards. #CommunityPower is working, but making it mainstream means rethinking how the system measures success.

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3 years

“Community Power is trapped in an impossible situation whereby it is required to prove its worth according to measures that are not set up to recognise its value.”

Escaping the Community Power Evidence Paradox - New Local

Community power produces far-ranging benefits. But an ‘evidence paradox’, hard-wired into our policy-making system, is holding back its potential.

www.newlocal.org.uk

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New Local

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4 years

OUT NOW - our new report on #MutualAid . 🤝What difference did volunteer groups make to the Covid response? 🤝What did #localgov do well - & badly - when supporting? 🤝How do we sustain this work into the future? Have a read👉 #BuildBackBetter

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3 years

We’ve tried a centralised, state-led approach. We’ve tried a privatised, market-led approach. They’re not working. We need a new approach – empower communities to lead. Find out more about the community paradigm:

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New Local

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3 years

New Local is exploring how community power can protect the future of the NHS – and we’re seeking your views. We've opened a call for evidence to gather insights from across the NHS that can inform our research, including a major report later this year: 👩‍⚕️

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3 years

“We know that good health doesn’t start and end in the NHS. It starts in local communities.” @ProfDonnaHall explains why we would love to hear from NHS staff – wherever you work – and citizens on how things could be different. #NHScommunitypower

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4 years

"Our job is to work alongside people to help them achieve their hopes & dreams." @Vibrant_Socks tells us about @EastAyrshire 's Vibrant Communities - a uniquely ambitious example of a council sharing real power with its community. #communitypowerandme

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New Local

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4 years

The Government is denying #localgov funds to run public services & cope with a #secondwave . At the same time, it's pushing to radically reorganise councils' structures. @adamjlent on why this 'starve & carve' approach is the next COVID fiasco. @IanDunt

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New Local

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2 years

We are delighted that @AngelaRayner will be opening Stronger Things - our 2-day festival of community power. Don’t miss out! Sign up today to join us in-person or online and get inspired.

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New Local

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3 years

👋Fancy joining our team? We're looking for a Director of Research to help take our #communitypower case-building to the next level. Find out more and apply 👉

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New Local

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2 years

“Community Power is trapped in an impossible situation whereby it is required to prove its worth according to measures that are not set up to recognise its value.”

Escaping the Community Power Evidence Paradox - New Local

Community power produces far-ranging benefits. But an ‘evidence paradox’, hard-wired into our policy-making system, is holding back its potential.

www.newlocal.org.uk

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New Local

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4 years

We're proud to present @stkaye 's "Think Big, Act Small: Elinor Ostrom’s radical vision for community power" Read how this extraordinary thinker offers a path forward - through trusted, empowered communities W/ thanks to @LocalTrust @peoplesbiz @csgskcl

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1 year

The Big Question: What does it take to transform a system ❓ It’s time for our first panel of the day on community power as a catalyst for large scale change w/ @kimleadbeater @ProfDonnaHall @hodajudaharmani @HelenGou & Professor Tony Travers.

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3 years

. @AndyBurnhamGM : From Whitehall, "you can only see numbers, not names." Working locally, starting with names - not numbers - makes many more things possible. "The trust needs to be there." Trust of communities, & trust of organisations with core funding. #StrongerThings

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5 years

"To feel great affection for the residents we serve is the least a citizen should expect of its public servants." What's #love got to do with local government? A great deal - say @BeccaDove2 & @familygroupmeet @CamdenCouncil . Read their blog💌

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3 years

“What we choose to measure, and which indices we chose to foreground as ‘evidence’ of ‘impact’ are never neutral choices. They are instead value-laden assumptions that reveal what it is we hold dear and what we think is important.”

Why the Treasury needs a Wellbeing Approach to Budgeting - New Local

Should Rishi Sunak be looking to New Zealand-style Wellbeing Budgets as a way to help communities - and community power - to flourish?

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New Local

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2 years

. @ProfDonnaHall at #StrongerThings : "Every public servant who works in a locality should be working to unleash community power."

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4 years

"At our council, we don't want to talk about recovery, because this has taught us that don't want to go back to how things were before. We want to talk about reformation." Invigorating zoom meet w/ @adamjlent & a host of #localgov strategists - all facing daunting challenges 1/2

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New Local

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4 years

"Forging our own path with creativity, humanity, energy & lots of kindness and love." 9 years on from the #WiganDeal , Chief Exec @AlisonMc_F on what @WiganCouncil has done to cope w/Covid - & how the Deal will adapt to future challenges. 🗞️

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New Local

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5 years

The word 'love' appeared 104 times in @TheCareReview 's Promise to Scotland's Children. @CamdenCouncil 's @BeccaDove2 & @familygroupmeet on how local public services are writing new narratives, with compassion as a central protagonist. Have a read: 💟

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New Local

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3 years

How can local areas do their part to tackle climate change? Let people lead. Our work shows how a democratic, local approach can unite communities to take action. #ClimateChange #COP26

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New Local

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3 years

6 benefits of putting communities in charge and some of the brilliant examples that show this in practice:

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New Local

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4 years

"We need to shift from traditional public services – one that does things to people - to one that works with people. One that's fundamentally preventative, based on assets, and strengthened by relationships." @jesstud makes the #communitypower case to @LordsPublicSCom

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New Local

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2 years

The outsider who transformed our justice system. @nazirafzal shares insights from his inspiring life story at #StrongerThings Don’t miss out. Book for free now:

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New Local

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1 year

NEW REPORT Giving people ⬆ agency has been linked to ⬆ community wellbeing. But to what extent is this backed up by the evidence? We looked at dozens of interventions involving 1000s of people. Today we’re pleased to launch our findings w/ @WhatWorksWB

Community agency, control and wellbeing - New Local

Produced in partnership with What Works Centre for Wellbeing, this report reviews the evidence related to community agency, control and power and their effects on community wellbeing.

www.newlocal.org.uk

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New Local

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1 year

We can’t measure tomorrow's approaches by yesterday's standards. #CommunityPower is working, but making it mainstream means rethinking how the system measures success.

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New Local

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1 year

What would a community-powered NHS look like? Our grid sets out the limits of traditional state & market paradigms that dominate health provision. A new #CommunityParadigm puts people at the heart of healthcare, centring communities, not services & people, not professionals.

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New Local

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3 years

Every community is different. When we recognise this, we can build systems that encourage autonomy and diversity – creating stronger communities. Our work on applying the ideas of Elinor Ostrom today:

Think Big, Act Small: Elinor Ostrom's radical vision for community power - New Local

Exploring the ground-breaking work of economist Elinor Ostrom, the intellectual hero of community power. And asking what it could mean for the UK today.

www.newlocal.org.uk

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New Local

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9 months

📣 New research: community-powered initiatives help create better health ❣️ We analysed the impact of @LocalTrust Big Local & found improved wellbeing in these areas. This local approach to preventive healthcare holds lessons for #NHS & system. 👀 🧵

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New Local

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3 years

Our animation on what #StrongerThings is all about - community power.

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New Local

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4 years

𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭: 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘃𝘀 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 Passionate about powerful communities, stronger public services & renewed local gov? Join us🎈 𝙏𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡; 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 🧵

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New Local

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3 years

"In #localgov , meaningful relationships are often regarded as a ‘nice to have’. But the evidence shows that strong relationships are not a bonus in a flourishing neighbourhood. They are the essential principle around which we organise everything else."

How to design relationship-centred services - New Local

The Relationship Project's David Robinson shares a framework for making relationships essential to public services, not a 'nice to have'.

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New Local

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4 years

Listen up - our brilliant Chair @ProfDonnaHall makes the case for testing & tracing to be local & specialised - and that means being led by councils. @MattHancock @RobertJenrick 👇📻 👇📻👇📻👇📻👇📻👇📻

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4 years

"We have the skills and experience in our environmental and public health teams" Donna Hall, @NLGNthinktank chair, tells #5LiveBreakfast why she's not a fan of the government's new #coronavirus tracing app idea. Listen via @BBCSounds 🎧

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New Local

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7 months

Public services are in crisis & there is no quick financial fix. We need to rewire existing spending around community priorities. In a report out today, @JYDenham & @jesstud call for place-based budgeting, reviving Total Place for today's climate. 👉 🧵

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New Local

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5 years

NEW REPORT: '"Community Commissioning: Shaping Public Services through People Power". Our latest Community Paradigm paper, supported by @LocalTrust , is available for download here: #localgov #communityparadigm #communitycommissioning

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New Local

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3 years

. @ProfDonnaHall asks @MichaelMarmot what his message for #localgov is: "Put equity and wellbeing at the heart of everything you do" "Look at the equity dimension of all policies - what it is going to mean, not only to the poorest people but to the gradient" #StrongerThings

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New Local

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1 year

The #CommunityPower movement heading into the Guildhall for #StrongerThings 2023! The excitement is real 🌟

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3 years

Community Power follows on from the ideas of Elinor Ostrom: - communities can manage their own resources - democracy is more meaningful at local level - there are no ‘one size fits all’ solutions Explore what these insights mean for us today:

Think Big, Act Small: Elinor Ostrom's radical vision for community power - New Local

Exploring the ground-breaking work of economist Elinor Ostrom, the intellectual hero of community power. And asking what it could mean for the UK today.

www.newlocal.org.uk

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New Local

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3 years

Elinor Ostrom is thinker we need for today. Why? She showed us: - How the legitimacy of democracy is built locally - A way beyond big business vs big state arguments - How to navigate crisis Find out more:

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New Local

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3 years

“We need to stop seeing social care as a means of getting people out of hospital. For the NHS discharge is an aim in itself – they pay little attention to what people are going to do afterwards.” @ProfDonnaHall Read our interview:

“Genuine reform is needed now”: Prof Donna Hall and Anna Severwright on fixing our broken social...

New Local Chair Donna Hall and Anna Severwright of #SocialCareFuture about the need to change the social care system.

www.newlocal.org.uk

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New Local

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1 year

We can’t measure tomorrow's approaches by yesterday's standards. #CommunityPower is working, but making it mainstream means rethinking how the system measures success.

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New Local

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2 years

"Instead of focusing on who’s on which board & who’s got a seat around the table, the focus should be on prevention, how we work with the VCS. And how we can deeply listen to citizens & patients." @ProfDonnaHall on the real priorities of NHS/ICS reforms

“There's not enough community power within ICSs” Donna Hall on NHS reforms - New Local

The NHS is embarking on the biggest reforms of a generation. Donna Hall diagnoses both the opportunities and the blindspots of the new ICS system.

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New Local

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3 years

. @AnnaSeverwright : "If you involved people with lived experiences in the design of services, people don't actually want services - they want lives." People can often design something that works better for their own lives - that can often end up costing less money. #AnEqualLife

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3 years

“Ask yourself how to be a leader for the health of the population you serve, not just the health care.” Watch Sir Michael Marmot's conversation with @ProfDonnaHall about how inequality shapes our health – and what we can do to fix it. #strongerthings

Sir Michael Marmot: action on health equity

“Ask yourself how to be a leader for the health of the population you serve, not just the health care.”Sir Michael Marmot, Professor of Epidemiology and Publ...

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2 years

"Integration alone will not lead to prevention, because the work of prevention isn’t achieved in a clinical setting. Causes of ill health will only be tackled substantively using the wider assets of people, their networks & communities." @jesstud @HSJnews

Community participation is core to resolving pressures on the NHS

The demand pressures facing the NHS are so immense that it is imperative to support the wellbeing in communities and better prevent acute escalation, writes Jessica Studdert

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New Local

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11 months

OUT NOW Labour council leaders have set out a route for Labour to deliver its objectives in government, starting with giving communities meaningful power & influence. We’re pleased to share their ambitious vision for the future of public services. 🧵👇

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New Local

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3 years

. @MichaelMarmot : "Despite the problems with local government - I don't see people's heads drop, this is the hand we've been dealt - let's do the best with what we've got" to help people even with funding challenges. #StrongerThings

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New Local

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3 years

In the last decade, councils' funding has fallen across nearly every area. This affects everything - especially discretionary services. Our latest Local Goverment Explained explores what #localgov does, and how austerity changed things.

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3 years

“The most important route to community power is organisational culture change…that truly embeds the belief that the solutions to an area’s biggest challenges can be found out in the community – not inside the walls of the public institution.”

5 Routes to Community Power - New Local

What are the practical ways to make community power an everyday practice, not just a long-term ambition?

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New Local

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3 months

#StrongerThings is go… @jesstud & @Vibrant_Socks set the wheels in motion for our 5th festival of community power 🌟 “We all know at first hand how community power can change lives. “Let’s get the people in power to see that we’re serious, that this works.”

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New Local

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1 year

What would a community-powered NHS look like? Our grid sets out the limits of traditional state & market paradigms that dominate health provision. A new #CommunityParadigm puts people at the heart of healthcare, centring communities, not services & people, not professionals.

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2 years

📣 In the face of growing demand challenges on our health service, we have launched a new project with @NHSEngland to understand the potential of community centred approaches. 🧵⬇️

Community-Powered Health and Care - New Local

This practice review shares inspiring community-powered approaches to health and care, alongside the learning we can draw from them and practical actions to implement this learning.

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New Local

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2 years

We’re exploring how place-based approaches in local areas can offer practical solutions – and we want to hear from you! Our call for learning and ideas is open until 27 Sept 2022:

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New Local

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3 years

“If all we were doing was managing illness, we weren’t making a difference to our community.” How coming together to sing, garden, crochet & share problems has transformed a town's health. The story of the GP doing things differently. #NHScommunitypower

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New Local

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2 years

"this needed to be much more than just a shiny 18-month initiative. This needs to be a long-term process that really drives change" Find out how @IslingtonBC is taking a community powered approach to inequality in one of London’s most deprived boroughs.

Islington: a community powered approach to inequality - New Local

New Local worked with Islington Borough Council’s Inequality Taskforce to launch a bold new approach to tackling inequality in one of London’s most deprived boroughs.

www.newlocal.org.uk

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2 years

"We can't know what a community needs until we know what a community has" Fantastic quote from @CormacRussell on starting with discovery. Shift from starting with what's wrong, to starting with what's strong. This idea is what's behind the name of our event - #StrongerThings

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New Local

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1 year

We’ve tried a centralised, state-led approach. We’ve tried a privatised, market-led approach. They’re not working. We need a new approach – empower communities to lead. Find out more about the community paradigm 🔎

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New Local

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4 years

And 96% of council bosses said the contribution of community groups to their Covid response had been 'very significant' or 'significant'. #MutualAid #communitypower

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New Local

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5 years

LATEST: Six reasons our public services need a paradigm shift away from institutions and towards communities - @jesstud blogs on our new agenda for public services … … #communityparadigm #localGov

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📣 Community Calling: People want more influence Today we’re launching our full report on the role #CommunityPower could play in solving the country’s biggest problems. See the key takeaways in this Thread🧵 @joesarling

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. @childrenengland asked young people to lead their own inquiry into how to create a welfare state that’s fair for children. Young people focused on local community-led solutions, from community health hubs to school community days. Find out more:

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From beginning to end, #StrongerThings 2024 was evidence of the fire and strength fuelling the community power movement. Here are 10 of the best bits 🧵

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“If all we were doing was managing illness, we weren’t making a difference to our community.” How coming together to sing, garden, crochet & share problems has transformed a town's health. The story of the GP doing things differently. #NHScommunitypower

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Across the UK, councils and communities are working together to address issues which impact their local areas. Today we’re hosting the first of four workshops w/ @LGAcomms and @TPXimpact on embedding innovative community engagement to put people at the heart of services.

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“I’d love a social care system that wasn’t designed just to be a gate keeper that kept people out, but was designed to support people.” @AnnaSeverwright @socfuture Read our interview:

“Genuine reform is needed now”: Prof Donna Hall and Anna Severwright on fixing our broken social...

New Local Chair Donna Hall and Anna Severwright of #SocialCareFuture about the need to change the social care system.

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3 years

What do councils actually do? (Clue: it's not just bins and pot holes.) Read Part 2 in @jesstud 's Local Government Explained series to find out:

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What is community power? Giving people the power and opportunities to use their local knowledge and personal experience to decide what happens in the places they live in. To take control of things that matter to them. And it’s already happening:

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"In many, many places communities already have power, and understanding, and answers." Many councils have embraced #communitypower during Covid. But how does this meaningfully continue into the future? Great guest blog from @localcraftivist @peoplesbiz

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"It's becoming increasingly obvious that blaming individual councils for poor performance while systemically underfunding them is a misdiagnosis of the problem" @jesstud on 🆕 @lgcplus research which finds 1/5 councils facing severe financial difficulties

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Crisis developing’ with one-fifth of councils facing severe difficulties

LGC research has found 74 councils are receiving government support or intervention More than a ...

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4 years

. @bradfordmdc & @lemnsissay 's Christmas Dinner charity are providing treat bags to 290 young care leavers to help them cope with loneliness & isolation during lockdown. The bags include craft accessories, sweets, toiletries & a month’s @netflix subscription. #Yorkshire 2/4

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3 years

“Within the NHS we are constantly doing to people. ‘Have this test.’ ‘Go and see that specialist.’ ‘Take that drug.’ All this time we are patronising people, lowering their self-confidence.” Meet the GP doing things differently #NHScommunitypower

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"I worked in the NHS for 25 years, & I know how much we love a 3-letter acronym. "But we need to recognise that an ICS, CCG, PCG only exist in our psyche. What’s real is our communities." New board member @benomsam on how to really reform healthcare.

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3 years

Communities vs Climate Change: The power of local action Today we are delighted to publish our new report in partnership with @groundworkuk @Grosvenor_GBI @EdenCommunities on how local action is the missing piece of plans to fight climate change. #COP26

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"Love is what motivates people to do things & to change their lives. "Love & compassion should be built into our systems. Put power into communities, they know much more about love than we do." @ProfDonnaHall on why love should be central to public service @BuurtzorgBI

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New blog: @steff_riches on how the pandemic has changed how she views her own identity and illustrated the importance of taking pride in your area – wherever you are from.

How to unlock community power by strengthening working-class identities - New Local

New Local Network and Events Officer Stephanie Riches explains how the pandemic has changed how she views her own identity and illustrated the importance of taking pride in your area – wherever you...

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