steve skelton
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Practitioner policy wonk | (Re)building the place-based state @questionfy | Trustee @mysociety | Ex- Demos, LGA, Stockport Council, GMCA, Govt of Jersey
Joined March 2011
The English Devolution Bill should make provision for MCAs to propose new public service administrative boundaries, aiming for greater co-terminosity. These would be subject to a governance review style consultation and approval mechanism. Thoughts?
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Here’s a further analysis of X being freely used to spread racist rumours
1/ 🧵There is another anti-immigrant, racist and unsubstantiated rumour being circulated online about the tragic stabbing of a woman in #Brantham, UK. I just wanted to provide some analysis of the emergence of this rumour, and the protagonists and sequence of the story.
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If anyone needs me, I'll just watching this for the next few weeks 😮
Due to inifinite recursion, this fractal system is aperiodic for both space and time. You'll never see the same pattern no matter how much you scroll, it's mathematically possible since the OTCAMP exists.
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Sea levels around the world are rising as a result of human-caused global warming. Overall, global sea levels have risen about 10 centimeters from 1993 to 2023. #WorldOceansDay
https://t.co/qqRNzm91IA
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Really enjoyed the breadth of the conversation - from the big picture statutory framework for #localgov + subsidiarity ⬇️ to devolution as a route to rebuilding strategic and system capability ⬇️ and onto systems and cultures that embrace community power + the hyper local
A little photo of our fab #StrongerThings Big Ideas panel @halima_khan1 @steve1skelton @JYDenham after we discussed the potential for community-power & place based working to overcome the crisis facing public services. Some hope and optimism…
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Participatory foresight for towns and cities. This looks great. 👇
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Devolution, transformation, participation, state of the nation. #strongerthings has it all. Including me, talking with @jesstud @JYDenham and @halima_khan1 about why we need to crack on with public service devolution h/t @jomillernz for the graphic 🙂 https://t.co/s5aIOusiLk
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Devolution, transformation, participation, state of the nation. How do you sum up a gathering like #strongerthings? We wanted to write something that links the different themes up for discussion, and...
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The more deprived the area, the more central government cut local government funding - @MichaelMarmot tells @AndrewMarr9 it’s a ‘miserable’ situation
‘It’s as if the government said, the sicker our community, the more money we're going to take away from them.’ Sir Michael Marmot tells @AndrewMarr9 ‘health inequalities will get bigger’ if local government is not supported centrally.
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Absolutely agree that growth + reform remains the function of CAs More simple models of devolution are available that preference growth and cut out the messy business of public service devo I sense a coming debate on this fundamental point. Good to see @jesstud is with us 🙂
Where next for devolution? My @IPPR Progressive Review article sets out three principles for a renewed approach: subsidiarity, inclusion & participation. Free access for 10 days: https://t.co/mVzVhK2Qnw It’s part of a special edition celebrating 20 years of @IPPRNorth 🥳
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Just spend a little bit of money to fix the data you already have, and then start using it to make decisions. 🩹🔄✔️
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Excellent to see the role of the Citizens Jury recognised in coverage of today's decision to allow Assisted Dying in Jersey cc. @TimJHughes @jonjalex
https://t.co/pydSF002eh
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A really big decision today, taken after an exemplary policy making process supported by some very good Government of Jersey civil servants. Good to see this article referencing the important role...
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In my view CAs should be enhanced - more local integration to create combined public service systems. Then a clearer role for Cllrs in local public service governance in a place. And some form of LPAC using existing political capacity to provide the scrutiny. Cheaper too.
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Enhanced accountability yes, but not by dividing CAs. The combined element presents real potential to fuse policy, delivery and system stewardship and that will create better governance of places. I tried to explain this a bit here - https://t.co/shQgD92Kfz
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Two things should change. First, we should get rid of the "combined" in combined authority. Mayors should be held to account by directly elected politicians, not by the leaders of local authorities. Mayoral scrutiny and running boroughs are totally different jobs.
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Georgian professions I now think (after checking a few dates)
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There was a phrase a lot of us used to use - 'Edwardian professions, working in victorian buildings to deliver post-war public services' Something like that. Can anyone remeber who said it and where? Asking for a footnote. Thx
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There's lots of interest in how policy making that is iterative, incremental and based on feedback rather than assumptions. It's something I'm fascinated by, whether we call it #policybydesign, #adaptivepolicy, #agilepolicy or, as @PublicDigitalHQ do, the #radicalhow
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Whether you think we should spend more on healthcare or not, we need ideas like this that can redirect investment towards to prevention 👇
NEW REPORT OUT TODAY 🚨 ‘Close enough to care: A new structure for the English health and care system’ as covered in @thetimes We propose pooling and devolving the NHS budget to regional mayors, and in turn, abolishing NHS England. 🧵 https://t.co/M3J2rB7p1e
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