Local Government Innovation, Nicola Bacon and Vicki Sellick (Young Foundation)

The Young Foundation 2011

Innovation in local government

Nicola Bacon and Vicki Sellick

8 July 2011


Our work with local government• Working with more than 50

UK local authorities (LAs)• Topics include: Ageing,

communities, housing, recycling, education, criminal justice, budget reduction, unemployment, teenage pregnancy and more

• Commonality is the method: end to end innovation, user involvement, better outcomes.


Malmö, Sweden• Supporting city to

develop its social sustainability approach

• “Hands on Social Innovation workshops” with City areas coordinators plus academics, NGOs

• Tools and inspiration to meet priority challenges

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1 Prompts

2 Proposals

3 Prototypes

4 Sustaining5 Scaling

6 Systemic change

Disengaged communities, poor education, high levels of disadvantage

Consensus about need for new approach

Data/studies on social need

External inspiration, social design principles, co-design solutions with participants

Learn from success of environmental sustainability programmes

Developing

Malmö’s innovatio

nstory


Ageing Well innovation series• Using action learning

set method to help 30 LAs think differently about ageing

Why has it worked?• Exposure to new

methods• Exposure to new ideas• Accelerated innovation

process


Preventative investment

Understanding how to bring in new funding to back evidenced programmes that prevent bad outcomes- Greater Manchester Financial

Incentives model (10 LAs plus others)

- Social Investment Bonds feasibility studies on youth unemployment and preventing offending

- Understanding the value of youth work: to guide good spending decisions

Commissioners are onside

Savings are greater than the cost

Clear benefit to government

Impact is staticially robust

Impact is quantifyable

Improves social wellbeing and prevents undesirable outcome

Not enough funding in current systelm

Seven tests for a Social Impact Bond


• Bureaucracies averse to risk

• Innovation can be disruptive, change power relations

• Often LAs lack skills, capital, dedicated processes

• Older models become efficient, mutually adapted, embedded in mindsets

Local government can innovate but finds it hard


How we help• Make connections between

‘bees’ (time and energy of users and entrepreneurs) and ‘trees’ (institutions)

• Act as an intermediary – allowing LAs to take risks

• Help catalyse change• Bring design thinking to

problem solving• By acting as an ‘entrepreneur

in residence’


Please get in touchNicola [email protected]

Vicki SellickProgramme [email protected]

020 8980 6263

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