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Transparency in innovation funding: What are the invisible barriers facing women?

25 October 2019 Are funders reaching the widest possible pool of innovators to publicise their programmes? What are the barriers that face women that we may not be able to see? Research Associate, Rob Callaghan, is researching where and why these…

Why measure public sector innovation? What we’ve learned so far from the Nordics

8 January 2020 For the past 6 months, Y Lab has been exploring how countries around the world measure public service innovation in different ways. Here’s what we’ve found out so far. At the end of November, we went to Denmark…

Introducing Public Services Pioneers: tools for change and how to use them

18 February 2020 Alexis Palá explains more about our event: What is it and why should you come? We may be pioneers, innovators, experimenters, creatives, change-makers, leaders, and decision-makers, but, we are who we are through and by others. We need each other.…

Flintshire Council becomes first in Wales to introduce Mockingbird programme

11 May 2020 Council in North Wales will use £1.15million in Innovate to Save funding to roll-out the Mockingbird family model for looked after children and their foster families.  A new way of delivering foster care is being rolled-out across…

Evaluating a programme: What have we learned so far about Innovate to Save?

28 August 2020 How and why does innovation happen in public services? Generating more research and understanding of this question was a key objective for Y Lab in delivering Innovate to Save. Research Fellow, Wendy Hardyman, shares some of what we’ve…