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Innovation in local government
Nicola Bacon and Vicki Sellick
8 July 2011
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Our work with local government• Working with more than 50
UK local authorities (LAs)• Topics include: Ageing,
communities, housing, recycling, education, criminal justice, budget reduction, unemployment, teenage pregnancy and more
• Commonality is the method: end to end innovation, user involvement, better outcomes.
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Malmö, Sweden• Supporting city to
develop its social sustainability approach
• “Hands on Social Innovation workshops” with City areas coordinators plus academics, NGOs
• Tools and inspiration to meet priority challenges
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1 Prompts
2 Proposals
3 Prototypes
4 Sustaining5 Scaling
6 Systemic change
Disengaged communities, poor education, high levels of disadvantage
Consensus about need for new approach
Data/studies on social need
External inspiration, social design principles, co-design solutions with participants
Learn from success of environmental sustainability programmes
Developing
Malmö’s innovatio
nstory
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Ageing Well innovation series• Using action learning
set method to help 30 LAs think differently about ageing
Why has it worked?• Exposure to new
methods• Exposure to new ideas• Accelerated innovation
process
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Preventative investment
Understanding how to bring in new funding to back evidenced programmes that prevent bad outcomes- Greater Manchester Financial
Incentives model (10 LAs plus others)
- Social Investment Bonds feasibility studies on youth unemployment and preventing offending
- Understanding the value of youth work: to guide good spending decisions
Commissioners are onside
Savings are greater than the cost
Clear benefit to government
Impact is staticially robust
Impact is quantifyable
Improves social wellbeing and prevents undesirable outcome
Not enough funding in current systelm
Seven tests for a Social Impact Bond
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• Bureaucracies averse to risk
• Innovation can be disruptive, change power relations
• Often LAs lack skills, capital, dedicated processes
• Older models become efficient, mutually adapted, embedded in mindsets
Local government can innovate but finds it hard
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How we help• Make connections between
‘bees’ (time and energy of users and entrepreneurs) and ‘trees’ (institutions)
• Act as an intermediary – allowing LAs to take risks
• Help catalyse change• Bring design thinking to
problem solving• By acting as an ‘entrepreneur
in residence’
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Please get in touchNicola BaconDirectornicola.bacon@youngfoundation.org
Vicki SellickProgramme Leadervicki.sellick@youngfoundation.org
020 8980 6263