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[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]

Mike Barker, We Cannot Cut Our Way to Prevention. Inside the System. https://t.co/hU1no5FaWN

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Benjamin Taylor offering two workshops online (open to all) due to missing #SysPrac26 this week.
Systemic consulting: helping without taking over - Wed 30 Sep, 12:15-13:45
Making relational, place-based public services ordinary - Thu 8 Oct, 12:30-14:00
https://t.co/BojGr0hZF5

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

You don’t need ‘commissioner’ in your job title to join the National Commissioning Academy.

If your work involves shaping services, partnerships, systems, markets or outcomes, the programme is designed to be relevant to you.

Find out more:

https://t.co/0at0Gk0gjV

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Commissioning across organisational boundaries is difficult.

That’s why the Commissioning Academy brings together people from across public services to learn from each other, challenge assumptions and apply new thinking.

Join this November:
https://t.co/yAP2yRlZk4

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

The National Commissioning Academy is back this November.

Developed by the Cabinet Office and now delivered by the PSTA, it helps commissioners and change-makers build the insight, confidence and practical tools to improve public service outcomes.

https://t.co/yAP2yRlZk4

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Systems practice - practice the technical aspects! Alpha version.

Or join the conversation on LinkedIn: https://t.co/HFTNymYqpj

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Got a real commissioning or transformation challenge you need to tackle?

Bring it with you.

The National Commissioning Academy combines learning, peer challenge and practical application – including your own 100-day plan for action.

November cohort:
https://t.co/7ScqFWpE1b

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Good commissioning is about much more than contracts and procurement.

The National Commissioning Academy explores how to work with whole systems, communities, partners and services to achieve better outcomes.

Next cohort starts November 2026:

https://t.co/yAP2yRlZk4

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

The next National Commissioning Academy starts this November.

Our flagship PSTA programme is for commissioners, transformation leads and public service colleagues who want to improve outcomes by working with the whole system.

Register your interest:
https://t.co/7ScqFWpE1b

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Back to term with an inspiring example of #publicservicetransformation that shows how hard the work is!

Join the full conversation on Linkedin: https://t.co/HI24EnbHh0

Back to term with an inspiring example of #publicservicetransformation that shows how hard the work is!

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

The consultant is in the system. The system is inside the practice. I’m doing two workshops at #SysPrac26; a slightly alarming pair... They ask the same awkward question from opposite ends: how do you change a system without pretending to stand outside it? https://t.co/3KA5x6edGU

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Ironic that we expect OpenAI to have control over their models when apparently they're unable to see, understand, or control their own billing/payment acceptance processes!

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

This week in systemic design

https://t.co/HlTKRIpUFr

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Epistemological closure is everywhere https://t.co/BF7lUyiIVW do you agree? You see it, right? You *are* one of us, aren't you?

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

VSM7 Walkthrough - Intelligent Organisations

https://t.co/yVlajQdTcP

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Kyla Avis: Have you ever tried to work with a group of people to do system mapping?

https://t.co/iuLcwLvlKK

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

announcing The Necessary Tangle – a living evidence atlas of systems | cybernetics | complexity https://t.co/6sfJ6bR7Jc

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Do you know where real control sits in the UK's public services?

https://t.co/NBD6fUp2t4

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Relational public services are no longer short of advocates. What they’re missing is an account of why they collapse. https://t.co/VLLSkJ5Njx

[PSTA @ServiceReform]

Teaching with the wrong ends of the constructivist stick – Christian Moore-Anderson

https://t.co/dHrOj5JwpW