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.
Joe Hill
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...