Nick Kimber

We’d love people’s input to this! 👇 Where are the UK public sector reformers?

Help map the movement so that we can work out together how best to support it.

Grateful for RTs

Seeing like a place Place-based work can be smarter and less bureaucratic, but can it rise to the political moment?

Seeing like a place. A weekend share of this. Some reflections from great summit on child poverty last week. More local approaches can be more intelligent and intentional, but can they rise to the gravity of the political moment?

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📆 Join us online on 17 July, for a live discussion with the framework’s authors @danhonig.bsky.social and @jamestplunkett.bsky.social to discover how to successfully implement mission-driven approaches.

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New thing klaxon! How do you know if your organisation is mission-driven? Today we’re releasing a mission maturity framework I’ve co-authored with @danhonig.bsky.social and Vinuri Dissanaya at Georgetown Better Government Lab in collaboration with Nesta. Link: www.nesta.org.uk/report/on-mi.... 1/n

Public Service Reform | LinkedIn Public Service Reform | 688 followers on LinkedIn. A multidisciplinary team leading public service reform from the Cabinet Office. | We are working to reform public services so they are more people-c...

www.linkedin.com/company/publ... been meaning to cross post this on here. First PSR newsletter! Please share @pollymackenzie.bsky.social @simonparker.bsky.social @jesstud.bsky.social @jamestplunkett.bsky.social

🌠 @georgiagould.bsky.social’s keynote was a real highlight of #StrongerThings 2025.

She spoke about her determination to create sustainable change.

And about building a movement for public service reform – Test, Learn and Grow.

The Cabinet Office Test, Learn and Grow team are hiring 11 roles across product, delivery management, data analysis and design. Come work with us on public sector reform! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Really welcome Pat McFadden's speech on taking a more agile 'test & learn' approach to public service responses to complex social challenges

At @neweconomics.bsky.social, we've written about how this model could be applied to improving employment support for ill & disabled people... 🧵

Reform of the state has to deliver for people Speech on reforming the public sector delivered by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden at University College London, Stratford.

I've just watched back the Pat McFadden speech about "test & learn" - here's the full transcript which is worth a proper read. Some of the early headlines weren't helpful IMO, but overall I'm very optimistic 🧵 www.gov.uk/government/s...

This morning, we’re in UCL East watching Chancellor the Duchy Pat McFadden announce the government’s new ‘test-and-learn’ approach to public service delivery.

We’ll be tweeting along and offering our key takeaways - read on 🧵

@uclpolicylab.bsky.social

Wise words from James as ever. Particularly on the language required to do this work and communicate it to a variety of different audiences

Few planners would argue that it was the only problem (non I’ve worked with) and stripping out capacity and capability in complexes systems which are priorities through outsourcing gets you nowhere, whatever policy framework you chose

Though planning is also under resourced and outsourcing of public services as a successful strategy is…well..contested let’s say

Ok

Is this a joke?

Just wow

‘It’s the opposite of Trump’s agenda’: Parks and Recreation’s Jim O’Heir on the show’s legacy As the ex-president returns, the masterly comedy about local government can feel like a fantasy. But its message is more relevant than ever

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio... an everyday story of local government

Director - London (Central), London (Greater) job with Central London Forward | 185835 We work together to support inclusive and sustainable growth.

shorturl.at/ANWU9 leading Central London Forward is an important job and I’ve loved working with - and occasionally for - them over the years @joedromey.bsky.social has done a fab job of it. If you’ve the drive to help make London’s economy a more inclusive one then it’s well worth checking out

Did this social work starter pack less than a week ago and it's already tripled in size. Lots of lovely people doing interesting things in the social work world. Shout me if you'd like an add!

Following!

Cheers mate. I will need your help!

Starting a new role as Director of Public Service reform within Cabinet Office. Haven’t figured out how to use this place properly for work yet (especially so in an HMG job) but I am at least here so get in touch if you want to get some stuff done. Most of you know how to reach me!

A radical invitation to collaborate How can we transform public service design and delivery by focusing on the power of human relationships? We talked to Nick Kimber and Osian Jones of London Borough of Camden to explore how they are ch...

How can we transform public service design and delivery by focusing on the power of human relationships?

We talked to @nick80.bsky.social and Osian Jones about the work being done at Camden Council to build a new relational approach to public services. www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

Chart shows effect of growing up near Sure Start on crime up to age 16. Title states: "Living near a Sure Start centre before age 5 significantly reduced youth convictions and custodial sentences."

NEW: Sure Start, the national programme which provided universal, holistic support during the early years, significantly reduced serious youth crime.

Read our new report, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, on children’s behaviour, youth offending and social care contacts: https://buff.ly/4eSRptk

We went to their first live show! We were the youngest and oldest people there :)

The D&D gang are brilliant too. Some amazing pods as well. Our household fav is Three Black Haflings which seems to do for mine whatever the NME did for me www.3blackhalflings.com

M&S breaks for Labour is the most interesting data though right?

Really looking forward to this on Wednesday. Among other things, we'll be chatting about digital public infrastructure and the design approaches needed for next generation public services

I started this a few years ago, but never finished: workingintheopen.xyz maybe it could be the start of a community resource?

HTML file is here: github.com/richardjpope...

I’m in Copenhagen early Nov for work (time with Lokal Tryghed and the Danish Social Innovation Association). We’ve a spare day at the end (8/11). Does anyone have recommendations for folks to see on innovation, design and public service reform? Suggestions on here/Nick.kimber@Camden.gov.uk welcome!