Sideways Look at ‘Big Society’ »

The whole way we think of public services and the part they play in making neighbourhoods may need to change. The challenge, identified in Chamberlain Forum’s Looking Sideways report on neighbourhood coproduction, is to look beyond the management of individual public services and instead at how they work together, and with communities, to create more, or less, good places to live. As the local State shrinks, the only way it can gain influence is by working better with communities. Government calls this idea ‘Big Society’. It requires better use of local assets and the local State to work with the grain of community interest. This is coproduction. It is the new Municipalism.

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A Manual for learning from Stories; Structured Dialogue Method

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A set of links to current resources that might have been made available

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