News and insight
Programme announcements, practical insight, useful resources, and work from the PSTA's partners and community.
Liz Williams shares the Surrey System Conveners team’s experience on Monday 9 November, 13:00-14:00 GMT, followed by an optional relational services community-of-practice conversation.
Read the full itemResearch led by the University of Birmingham examines person-led planning, support networks and the conditions that help adult Family and Group Conferencing work.
Read the full itemCQC’s new annual assessment examines changing care markets, persistent inequalities, and what commissioning can do to improve people’s experience.
Read the full itemA founding essay from Social Investment Business asks how public institutions can respond to shared resources, changing risks, and different needs across places.
Read the full itemCare City shares learning from Connect in Barking & Dagenham, asking how support can help people build relationships, take part, and contribute.
Read the full itemJoin Chrissie Gregory, Sharon Davidson, and Benjamin P Taylor on Wednesday 4 November, 13:30-14:30 GMT, to explore the conversations and decisions behind children’s services reform.
Read the full itemSolace and Collaborate CIC bring together nine chief executives’ accounts of leading across organisations, places, and levels of government.
Read the full itemAn NHS Alliance and Local Trust report examines the funding, decision-making, and learning arrangements that help community-led organisations shape neighbourhood health.
Read the full itemADASS East’s October report shows how people with lived experience are shaping commissioning, communication, recruitment, and support.
Read the full itemAn independent reform project focuses on the infrastructure, investment, and learning needed for a more effective response to violence against women and girls.
Read the full itemA neighbourhood health account from Doncaster examines what changes when support starts with residents’ lives and learning shapes the work.
Read the full itemThe Good Shift’s article and accompanying learnbook examine who holds the whole when many separate funding decisions land in one community.
Read the full itemGlasgow’s seventh annual family-poverty report combines public data, lived experience, and service knowledge to support better decisions.
Read the full itemA forthcoming free learnbook turns years of place-based practice into questions and tools for seeing where change is moving, stuck, or waiting for a decision.
Read the full itemNesta and Involve are inviting practical, low-cost, broadly supported ideas that could remove everyday friction across UK public life.
Read the full itemKent County Council's 2026-28 policy sets out how its purchasing will pursue social value through jobs and skills, stronger local suppliers, and healthier communities.
Read the full itemDan Kirby and Steph Gamauf explore what commissioning would look like if relationships, shared learning, and adaptation were treated as core infrastructure.
Read the full itemAn evaluation of Live More with Shared Lives reports improved wellbeing and independence, trusted respite for families, and an estimated £5.96 of social value for each £1 invested.
Read the full itemAn online masterclass and surgery will share Westminster's experience of defining an air-quality challenge, engaging suppliers, testing solutions, and building evidence.
Read the full itemQ Community has brought together reports, articles, recordings, organisations, and ways to connect for people developing relational public services.
Read the full itemRich Bell asks what devolution, public-service reform, and social care might reveal about the prospects for a more relational state.
Read the full itemPSTA facilitator Jon Harvey’s new edition uses magical stories to help children understand local democracy and imagine how they can shape kinder, more inclusive communities.
Read the full itemA story about what happens when neighbourhood life is expected to fit the health system's plans.
Read the full itemA new LGIU report examines councils' role in public-service reform, democratic accountability, prevention, and local capability.
Read the full itemCormac Russell explores the different contributions of community associations and institutions to social and economic change.
Read the full itemA reading note on why immediate crisis spending can displace the local conditions that help people stay well.
Read the full itemA short external exercise for NHS commissioners to compare the approaches they reach for first.
Read the full itemTurn an immersive exercise into a useful examination of decisions, assumptions, and consequences.
Read the full itemFive questions that connect contract evidence with service experience and practical decisions.
Read the full itemHow to choose a live project that makes development useful without overwhelming the participants.
Read the full itemA concrete starting point for developing systems leadership across organisations.
Read the full itemA practical way to reconnect commissioning decisions with the lives they are intended to improve.
Read the full itemHow to decide between an open programme, a bespoke cohort, and a place-based academy.
Read the full itemThe next national cohort will bring together commissioners, transformation leads, and system partners for applied learning starting in January 2027. Exact dates and the full timetable are to be confirmed.
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