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🚨 NEW BLOG 🚨 With all the recent talk of public sector reform, Lead Researcher Hana Kapetanovic looks at one aspect that hasn’t had as much focus as it deserves: procurement, and how it can help deliver the missions. Read Hana’s new blog here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eM-ai6nC

📢 STARTING SOON! 📢 Join us at 10am and hear Polly Curtis and Ben Glover kick off our Future Public Service Summit. 📺 Watch live here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ggJQhg2B

✨ NEW RESEARCH ✨ Today we launch our new cross-cutting public service reform agenda, developed by demos’ Future Public Services Taskforce over the last year, in its final report. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gwjx-k6t This roadmap presents the Taskforce’s final policy recommendations to government, providing the foundations for the first government White Paper on cross-cutting public service reform since 2011. Read a summary of analysis and recommendations in the policy briefing, which covers key policy areas and the reform needed to liberate our public services, boost productivity and deliver better outcomes for citizens. 👉 https://lnkd.in/gbgGv9sD 📺 Watch the launch of this new agenda at our Public Services Summit today from 10am. Link to follow

🔔 Future Public Services Summit speaker announcements! 🔔 We're delighted to announce the latest new speakers confirmed to join our stellar line up at the upcoming one-day Summit. 🗣️ Georgia Gould MP, Parliamentary Secretary 🗣️ Peter Hyman, Former Senior Advisor to Keir Starmer 🗣️ Harpreet Uppal MP, Member of Parliament for Huddersfield Will you be joining us too as we launch our new public service reform agenda? 💬 See our full line up of speakers by following the link below. ❗️In person tickets are sold out but please join the waiting list or sign up to the livestream. 📺⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eQNcA_es

💻❗"By the 2029 election, will the UK be able to make collective decisions based on reliable information and productive public deliberation? Will we be debating what has actually happened to public services and the economy or debating untruths?" In a new blog, authored by Elizabeth Seger and Hannah Perry, we announce a new, ambitious programme of work, Epistemic Security 2029. The project will aim to answer the difficult questions posed by flaws in our current information ecosystem, including concerns about foreign influence on UK democratic processes and the impacts of social media and generative AI on democratic discourse for the next political era. 📚 Read more here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eeQuVq9F

💡 In light of the Government’s new 'Get Britain Working' White Paper, Andrew Phillips shares his reflections - welcoming the move to merge Jobcentre Plus and the National Careers Service into a new universal service, in a NEW blog. 📚 Read here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ekPkUwUD

💻🧠 Let's think beyond silver bullets and snake oil. In a NEW paper from Sophia Knight, Elizabeth Seger and Ben Glover, we set out how AI can be a part of the radical transformation our public services desperately need. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gCc68Ycs This paper builds on Demos' new 'Liberated Public Services' agenda and maps out how we can – and must - embed data and AI *within* a reformed public service model that addresses the deep structural problems we face today. AI can serve this agenda by; ➡️ Supporting prevention by using predictive modelling, ➡️ Empowering frontline service professionals by freeing up time spent on administrative tasks, and ➡️ Improving communication and collaboration with citizens through AI-enabled civic technology. Yet, it is critical that we get the use of AI into our public services right. To do this, we need the following foundations; 📚 A National Data Library that helps local government, service providers, and citizens to make effective use of data to improve public service provision 🛒 Create AI procurement guidance to support local authorities to procure AI tools that meet their needs 🪪 Seriously discuss the role of Digital ID, addressing privacy and digital exclusion 🔬 Orient a proportion of AI R&D in the UK toward developing public interest AI 📺 Catch up on yesterday's launch event for the paper and hear from Daniel Aldridge MP, Gina Neff, Hetan Shah and report Lead Author, Sophia Knight 👉 https://lnkd.in/ex-5k9rV

📢 This Wednesday! 📢 How are public sector workforces navigating AI and digital transformation? 💬 Join us as we discuss with excellent speakers Daniel Aldridge MP, Gina Neff and Hetan Shah, hosted by our own Sophia Knight. ⏰ Join us from 5pm 📺 In person or online ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/e56au-EX

📣 Did you spot Demos's Elizabeth Seger introduce our digital policy rebrand - Demos Digital - in this week's newsletter? 👀 ⬇ 💻 Read more about Demos Digital here: https://lnkd.in/egikF6jY 🗞 Sign up to our newsletter to receive the latest news, research and political hot takes every Thursday here: https://lnkd.in/e629rFcW

🚨 Have you signed up for our next Collaborative Democracy Network event yet? 🚨 Join us as we sit down with policymakers, artists, and civil society to explore creative ways to make government more approachable, engaging, and inclusive. Our exciting line up of speakers features: ➡ Tamara Finkelstein, Permanent Secretary, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs and Head of Policy Profession ➡ Catherine Howe, Chief Executive, Adur and Worthing Councils ➡ Yara El-Sherbini, one half of pioneering social practice artist duo YARA + DAVINA ➡ Kieran Sheehan , Co-Director, Everyone Here ➡ Miriam Levin, Director of Participatory Programmes, Demos (Chair) 📆 25 November, 6:00pm 📺 In person and online 👉 https://lnkd.in/emQCVVzb This event is supported by Policy Lab UK.