by David Robinson | 24 Jul 2024 | Economy & Politics, Our thinking
In brief In a breakout session at the Changing our Permissions event on July 12th we discussed working with the new government. We heard from Rob Mc Cabe about his experience of working on changing systems with the Birmingham Pathfinder team and others contributed...
by David Robinson | 29 Apr 2024 | Economy & Politics, Our thinking, Top Picks
In brief As an election looms David Robinson reflects, in this very personal blog, on the stories of relationship centred-practitioners as told in our the Relationships Case Maker. Faraway from Westminster and Whitehall, he says, the relationship-centred revolution is...
by David Robinson | 16 Jan 2023 | Dreams and Vision, Economy & Politics, Our thinking, Top Picks
In brief In this blog, published at the start of 2023, David Robinson offers some personal reflections on working towards deep rooted, sustained social change. He draws out two urgent and important lessons from 40 years working in this space: plant trees and stir the...
by Nick Sinclair and David Robinson | 9 Oct 2020 | Covid and Relationships, Economy & Politics, Our thinking
In brief In this blog, Nick Sinclair and David Robinson explore the concept of a ‘social covenant’ discussed in Danny Kruger’s recent report, ‘Levelling Up Our Communities’, arguing it must be formed around values, trust, morality and...
by David Robinson | 6 Mar 2020 | Economy & Politics, Our thinking, Relationship-Centred City
In brief In the wake of our latest report, ‘The Relationship-Centred City’, David calls on the Mayor of London to create an environment in which relationships can thrive by getting behind a London Relationships Commission. Read the report A couple of...
by David Robinson | 6 Mar 2020 | Economy & Politics, Guest Blogs
In brief In this Joining the Dots podcast, hosted and produced by our partners at Ratio, David explores the potential of a relational social policy and reflects on the Islington Green Paper Fairer...
