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What a great Social Enterprise Day yesterday! The Guardian Conference - Social Enterprise the Future of the Public Sector? Claire Dove, Chair of the Social Enterprise Coalition and I were both speaking at the Guardian conference in Birmingham which was chaired by Patrick Butler, Editor of Health, Society and Education - a great conference and sparking the kind of debate with the people who matter at a time of great national importance. We ran (literally) to catch a train that ...

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“In the longer term, public services need to be built around people – their aspirations and their needs – not around existing services or institutional structures. As the Varney report pointed out, ‘citizens who need various services are left to join up the various islands’. This has to change.” Jamie Bartlett, Demos, Getting More for Less 2009 http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/getting-more-for-less I attended the launch of "getting mor...

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Well I've been busy doing a fair few bits of ambassadorial duties of late and lots and lots of public speaking, (that's not the best bit of my job).  I was asked to speak at the NCVO Sustainable Funding Conference and last week the capita 3rd sector commissioning conference, this week to directors at Joseph Rowntree Foundation and next week at the Greenwich University Partners in Action conference. It's been fun but I'm running out of words and more importantly opening j...

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