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06 October 2025

What does a place-based approach to Human Learning Systems look like?

The need for reform in public services has never been stronger or more urgent. Since taking office the Government has committed to three core reform principles and launched several major programmes to bring them into practice: integrating services around people’s lives, prioritising prevention over crisis response, and devolving power to local areas in partnership with communities and civil society.


 

From Implicit to Intentional: Advancing equity in Human Learning Systems

While the relational practices central to HLS are well-positioned to promote equity, they do not automatically enable equitable outcomes. Without explicitly naming and addressing equity, even the most well-intentioned relational work can reproduce existing power imbalances. Equity needs to be an interconnected, embedded consideration throughout. Ensuring equity requires deliberate, intentional practice around a clear purpose, promoting social justice. Relational practices can only advance equity where they are accompanied by conscious, critical reflections on power, inclusion and agency at all system levels (interpersonal, organisational-structural, local, regional and national). Without acknowledging and addressing structural barriers, implicit biases and trust deficits, particularly in marginalised communities, public services risk ignoring or reinforcing existing inequalities.


26 June 2023

Explode on Impact

It is impossible for organisations to “demonstrate their impact” if they work in complex environments. Asking them to do so requires them to create a fantasy version of the story of their work. This corruption of data makes doing genuine change work harder because it is difficult to learn and adapt from corrupted data.

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