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Making community power happen

By Adam Lent | 12 April 2023

Adam Lent explores the rapidly advancing community power movement in local government and how thi...

A stronger vision

By Adam Lent | 10 March 2022

Adam Lent looks at what’s on offer at New Local’s Stronger Things event, with speakers including ...

A chance to speak as one

By Adam Lent | 22 February 2021

Community power is gaining momentum across the public sector, says Adam Lent. In advance of New L...

Put communities in charge of public service inspection

By Adam Lent | 02 July 2019

Adam Lent considers the merits of ‘replacing inspectors swooping in and out every few years’ with...

Culture shock: creating a changemaking culture

By Adam Lent | 14 February 2018

Adam Lent and Jessica Studdert introduce four case studies of councils beginning to benefit from ...

Adam Lent: An agenda-shifting Budget - if a little underwhelming

By Adam Lent | 22 November 2017

The chancellor has made some bold moves to fix the country's most intractable issue, housing, and...

We need intellectual bandwidth, capacity and resources to halt a children's crisis

By Adam Lent | 04 October 2017

A crisis is coming to children’s services and the Government has yet to acknowledge the problem, ...

Are we prepared for the looming technological revolution?

By Adam Lent | 13 September 2017

We urgently need a public inquiry to answer the tough questions about the technological revolutio...

Social care has taken a beating in the elections too

By Adam Lent | 09 June 2017

Theresa May is not the only potential casualty of this election. The social care issue has taken ...

The Tory social care policy is a stinker, but what else is on offer?

By Adam Lent | 22 May 2017

Theresa May's social care policy is a stinker, but the proposals have broken new ground in many i...