Many public services only support people once something has gone wrong - illness, victimisation, neglect and abuse. But despite good theories about how to prevent these things happening in the first place, little changes in the public sector.
In this paper, we look at why.
📣 New research: today we published Building the Preventative State, the summary paper of a series of roundtables and workshops we ran last year on how to deliver prevention in public services.
This programme has kindly been supported by Newton.
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✉️The Re:View is out!
This week, @matthewfeeney.bsky.social writes about why we aren't saving enough for retirement, and how local authoriteis could do better public service reform.
restate.substack.com/p/the-review...
Great to see our Director of Strategy, @jo3hill.bsky.social, featured on the latest episode of the Radical Reformers podcast. Joe discusses bold ideas for public service reform and what genuine policy change looks like.
Listen to the full podcast here: www.mutualventures.co.uk/post/radical...
📣The Re:View is out!
This week @jo3hill.bsky.social writes about how government is still struggling to know how to relate to the AI industry and the companies that are building it.
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The Re:View is out! Fantastic read on the challenges facing DWP’s new Perm Sec from our own @stkaye.bsky.social
One of the best parts of my job is that I get to talk to civil servants about working in government. But that doesn’t scale very well so we created a survey.
If you’re currently a civil servant, fill out our anonymous Alternative People Survey. Last year we had 1,265 responses!
If you are a keen observer of the news, you could be forgiven for thinking that politics is mostly concerned with the scramble politicians perform as they tackle one crisis after another.
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Great to see some of our work @re-state.bsky.social feature in the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee's latest report on 'Rewiring the State'.
I hate to sound like a Treasury guy, but government should be able to answer basic questions about how much money it spends on technology.
We've written a quick Re:Act post (get it) to Reform's ideas about the centre of government.
So excited to launch the Alternative People Survey 2026!
Civil servants are an under-surveyed bunch. What do they think? In our first survey last year 1,265 told us.
This year we’re doing it again - with new questions about AI, payouts, and more.
In the latest episode of the Radical Reformers podcast, I sit down with Joe Hill, Director of Strategy at Re:state (and the winner of last year’s Think Tanker of the Year award!), for a timely and tho...
Our Director of Strategy @jo3hill.bsky.social has written about why, with decades of consensus in favour of prevention in public service reform, policymakers have made little progress - to mark the launch of our paper 'Building the Preventative State' today.
restate.substack.com/p/preventing...
Today's Re:Act discusses our take on Reform's proposals for the centre of government, published this morning.
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Re:State
The Re:View is out 🥳
While Westminster chased the headlines, @stkaye.bsky.social looked elsewhere: the DWP.
With backlogs growing and a new Permanent Secretary taking charge, is this a welfare system under strain, or a State in need of reform?
Read more 👇
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Calling all civil servants📣
Read @jo3hill.bsky.social's latest Re:Think on why the Alternative People Survey matters, then take 10 minutes to share your views.
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Civil servants – tell us what you think.
Our Alternative People Survey 2026 launches today - and takes less than 10 minutes to complete.
Read more about it and find out how to take part in @jo3hill.bsky.social's op-ed for @civilserviceworld.bsky.social: www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article...
Re:State
Re:State
Civil servants aren't meant to have opinions on the policies that govern their own working lives. The Alternative People Survey 2026, which launche...
