The Collaborative State Collection
This collection will outline the lessons to be learned from inter-organisational collaboration in practice, through case studies looking at successful collaboration in action, and conceptual and systems analysis.
Collaboration nation
12:00am Thursday, 8th June 2006What's going on with public services? On the one hand they're supposed to join up and become more holistic, on the other they seem to be becoming ever more fragmented and harder to govern. Schools, for instance, are getting wide ranging independence from local government, but they're still supposed to help solve social problems that involve working with children's trusts and the police.
Can we get the benefits of specialisation and integration? Of course we can - and a lot of public servants are already finding really interesting ways to do it through collaboration.
We're just starting off a new project on what we're (provisionally) calling 'the collaborative state' and we're looking for examples of public services working together locally to drive innovation and tackle complex problems. We'd like to cast the net as widely as possible and get quite a few case studies up on this website, as well as putting some in the collection we're producing.
Are you a collaborator? Then leave a comment or drop me an e-mail...
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