PSTA

A social enterprise providing cutting edge capability building and sharing of knowledge across central and local public services. #commissioning #transformation

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Local public services in the UK face a 'perfect' storm

This paper from @RedQuadrant and the Public Service Transformation Academy @ServiceReform, sets out twelve principles for an adaptive approach to meet the needs of our circumstances.

https://t.co/ibzjBhahkb
#adaptivecouncil

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Most commissioning training teaches you how to buy services. The National Commissioning Academy helps you reshape the systems that produce outcomes. New cohort launching September 2026. Launch webinar: 14 Sept, 10:00–12:30. Contact [email protected]

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

LGR? The real challenge is what comes next

https://t.co/GeFpoKcola

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

The next commissioning academy will launch this September - could you or your colleagues benefit?

https://t.co/Lkcb1bmY1c

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

What if a large part of the public sector productivity crisis is actually the machine metabolising its own fragmentation? https://t.co/ossw3FLYH3

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Moving to community at the centre — and the challenge to commissioning https://t.co/opb5jdYT8l

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

That gap between the organisation on paper and the organisation in reality is where most transformation efforts go to die. https://t.co/nHsXE9AyMH

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Most #commissioning training teaches you how to buy services. Very little teaches you how to reshape a system. We can help. https://t.co/7TduarS5qp

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

The same structural bottleneck now appears almost everywhere: science, public services, consultancy, software, universities and politics. https://t.co/QrZmUNx3bv

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Do states govern through decisions, or reduction? https://t.co/gxGPdVOHLG

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

What does professionalism mean? https://t.co/th85fPVOKR

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Thesis: you can tell the decade a WEIRD management model came from by what it fears — and the remedy it prescribes. Join the conversation on LinkedIn. https://t.co/PyqxhM0dSH

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

A (shorter) manifesto for relational public services. https://t.co/d4ZvFX2YnO

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

What ethical or spiritual belief system is tucked away, perhaps in your back pocket, influencing you even if you don't acknowledge it? https://t.co/UvR2ppKBbG - part of mine might be the community of the covenant

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

"Tackling financial hardship to safeguard children", Policy in Practice. In person and online, 30 April https://t.co/vXrCwxEaEW

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Chris Mowles, "Starting with experience", On Complexity. https://t.co/oNWQdFy5tR

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Problems to Patterns: An introduction to Human Systems dynamics

5 May 2026 12:00 - 13:00 BST, Online event from ODN Europe

https://t.co/N9ierRvM7L

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

A MANIFESTO for RELATIONAL public services https://t.co/hhM0LDTaKm (what would YOU write your Keir Hardie address to the representatives on?)

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

SCEU Book Club: Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows - 13 May
https://t.co/sfVRBS7A2L

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

How to get growth from UK professional service SMEs with a public sector focus – from a ‘big four’ to a ‘big ten’ https://t.co/DhuaIfkPEz

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

What if the most valuable thing in ‘whole system’ work is not seeing the whole system at all? https://t.co/gEnQkHrRr3