by Heather Sandy | Jun 2, 2020 | Education and inclusion, Local government transformation
Heather Sandy is the Director of Children’s Services for Lincolnshire County Council. IMPOWER have been supporting the council in relation to SEND since July 2019. Like all local authorities, Lincolnshire has been working hard to implement the SEND reforms and deliver...
by Olivia Bryan | May 30, 2020 | Being IMPOWER, Local government transformation
“IMPOWER has a very supportive attitude towards professional development and there are always opportunities on projects to take on more responsibility or work on specific objectives.” I have worked for IMPOWER since February 2017 and over the past three...
by Jon Ainger | May 18, 2020 | Being IMPOWER, Local government transformation
Organisational resilience is not about the ability to respond to a crisis – it is about capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. This article was originally published in The MJ Personal resilience has been in vogue for a while, and has been given an obvious...
by Ebony Hughes | May 6, 2020 | Local government transformation, Place
Local authorities face the triple challenge of remaining resilient, ensuring they are financially sustainable and protecting outcomes. Over the past week, I have read an increasing number of stories about the alarming financial impact of Covid-19 on local authorities,...
by Henrietta Curzon | May 5, 2020 | Being IMPOWER, Local government transformation
My colleague Jon Ainger and I recently presented at an online event facilitated by Northumbria University Business School, on taking a Human Learning Systems approach to public services. In our session, we spoke about working across interfaces to build system...
by Amy Crowson | May 5, 2020 | Local government transformation, Place
To aid local economic recovery, businesses must be given freedom to diversify. To aid local economic recovery, businesses must be given freedom to diversify From the outset, it was clear that the impact of Covid-19 on businesses large and small was going to be huge....
