'The Law of Rule' For this week's Re:Think long read, @jo3hill.bsky.social has written about the challenges of regulatory reform, why the Government's current approach is struggling, and why we're working on it. re-state.co.uk/rethink/the-...

The UK won’t hit 1.5 million homes without a shake-up - could mayors be the answer? In our latest Re:Think, Researcher, @seaneke.bsky.social, explores why devolving Homes England’s powers could unlock more housebuilding. Check it out here👇 re-state.co.uk/rethink/devo...

Super sweet to publish 'New House Rules' today w @coryberman.bsky.social & @stkaye.bsky.social, setting out the case for devolving Homes England.

🚨NEW REPORT: 'NEW HOUSE RULES'🚨 Kickstarting housebuilding in England is an enormous challenge. In this report, Re:State makes the case for abolishing the arms length body Homes England and devolving most of its functions to the emerging tier of Strategic Authorities.

London & NYC are similarly 'ungovernable', but NYC appears far more effective at cutting through this thicket to get stuff done. Why is this? - Greater fiscal autonomy is important... - But so too is NYC's greater ability to embrace the messiness of modern urban governance.

V sweet to publish 'Go big or Go home' w @stkaye.bsky.social SAs can work in large cities w big populations & coherent economies. They don't work in more rural, polycentric areas w low population densities. SAs in these areas are too small and/or incoherent to be truly regional.

Something big is landing tomorrow, with @stkaye.bsky.social & @re-state.bsky.social. 😲

We read it so you don't have to! Check out our snap analysis on the 10 Year Plan - highly ambitious but minimal on delivery. But nevertheless some interesting ideas in there. Read below 👇🔗 re-state.co.uk/react/react-...

Wrote about the treatment of place in the recent FFR & IS. Govt should be commended for centring place in their policy agenda. But this needs more nuance, moving beyond a dichotomy of areas with significant needs vs areas with significant potential. Can Whitehall deliver this?

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Today we publish the next paper in our Hospital of the Future series - 'Hospital as a service, not a building'. For everyone but the most high-risk, complex patients, attending a physical hospital building should be a thing of the past.

"The problem in Britain today is that when those trade-offs involve risk, we too often default to the status quo, and the consequences are becoming severe." There is no alternative to a radical rewiring of Whitehall. @chriscurtis94.bsky.social makes the case 👉 re-state.co.uk/publications...

The social contract is broken, argues @profdonnahall.bsky.social - to remake the State we must rebuild that contract in partnership with citizens re-state.co.uk/publications...

Former West Midlands Mayor Andy Street argues devolution is the route to growth... "our country is the most centralised outside North Korea – it’s as true as it’s absurd" re-state.co.uk/publications...

A key theme running through our essay collection is devolution. @andyburnham.bsky.social is first up making the case for an even more ambitious agenda from Gov. The centre cannot hold. Read what needs to come next... re-state.co.uk/publications...

Brilliant to have @claire-ainsley.bsky.social making the case for a better State in our essay collection marking the launch of our new name READ her full article, & 22 others, here: re-state.co.uk/publications...

"The years ahead must be ones not of managed decline, but of renewal. It's time to be bold. It's time to remake the State. Re:State: welcome back." Read former Cab Sec Lord Sedwill in our essay collection 👉 re-state.co.uk/publications...

Super exciting to launch our new name today, with an all-star line up writing some excellent pieces about the need for radical reform👇 👇

Great to be up at the Darlington Economic Campus yesterday - read our big takeaways below👇

How does policymaking survive in an age of automation? Our blog today, by @patrickking.bsky.social, looks at the future of what he calls the 'policy-industrial complex'👇 reform.uk/comment/the-...

Great to write for Inside Housing about the importance of further empowering mayors if we are to meet the 1.5 million home target 👇 www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/the-...

Wrote about London Councils' proposals for the future of London governance. Could a combined authority-esque model work for London? Or do we need to think bigger? 👇 reform.uk/comment/a-ca...

Great to see this out today. Devo & LGR are bringing welcome change to local govt. But below the CA/LA level there's a growing democratic gap opening up at the neighbourhood level. This risks further eroding the social fabric & worsening institutional trust. How should we address this?!👇

📢NEW REPORT: BUILDING STATE CAPACITY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH The Government have fired the starting gun for deep reform of the State. To respond to the challenges we face and unlock growth, they must now go further. Our report published with @labourgrowth.bsky.social offers the blueprint👇

📢NEW REPORT: DESIGNING A NEIGHBOURHOOD HEALTH SYSTEM Delivering on government's ambition of proactive, neighbourhood-centred care will require serious devolution of power and resources to local leaders. Our report offers a roadmap to help policymakers turn vision into reality.

The local audit system is failing. Fragmented leadership, severe workforce shortages & complex requirements have led to a situation where, in 2022/23, only 1% of local bodies published audited accounts on time. It's great to see the Govt taking steps to address this...

Ahead of the PM's speech today on CS reform @charliepickles.bsky.social has considered how the Govt can achieve their ambitions on quangos, AI and workforce reform 👇 reform.uk/comment/how-...

Super cool to write this today about the publication last week of the public bodies who've missed the audit backstop dates. We can't have a truly sustainable local govt system until we have a functional local audit system👇

I also wrote a piece for the @telegraphnews.bsky.social on how the NHS actually works. We've ended up with a half devolved, half centralised NHS which achieves the policy ambitions of neither system. And just streamlining NHSE doesn't fix this identity crisis 👇 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03...

Brilliant to see the PM going big on quangos this week. And to have our report cited in The Times splash about his speech. Public bodies are responsible for 60% of day-to-day spending. Fixing how they’re held accountable & overseen by depts is vital for effective delivery👇

Super cool to publish Metromentum today with @stkaye.bsky.social, looking at how Strategic Authorities can be made more decisive, accountable and capable.🤠 English devo is reaching a critical point. Strategic Authorities may soon cover England. This is good.

📢 NEW REPORT - HOW TO STRENGTHEN STRATEGIC AUTHORITIES 🌇 Regional Mayors are at the heart of plans for devolution. But they and the Combined Authorities they lead do not have the tools or capacity to deliver on their promises. 'Metromentum' sets out a new approach. Out now!

One more sleep🤯🤩with @stkaye.bsky.social and @reformthinktank.bsky.social

Great to kick off our Meetings with Mayors series earlier today with @stkaye.bsky.social and East Midlands Mayor Claire Ward!

In this week's blog, Senior Researcher @patrickking.bsky.social argues that a focus on departmental efficiency targets can distract from *where* most day-to-day spending is distributed, and value for money won/lost - through public bodies. reform.uk/comment/save...

🚨 NOW LIVE 🚨 As covered in @thetimes.com. Today we publish ‘Quangocracy’ which argues for overhauling public bodies, to ensure they are fit to deliver.

NEW REPORT: A helping hand: robotics in surgery. Robotic assisted surgery (RAS) is one of the most prolific innovations in surgery in recent decades. Today we publish a briefing note exploring the range of benefits they offer, and what prevents their rollout.

Great to write about the DPP. V welcome to see the govt's speed + willingness to tackle complexity. 🤩 But why have some areas been excluded? Is there enough prep for future difficulties? And do councils have sufficient capacity to simultaneously achieve devo + reorganisation?🧐

1/ Today is a big day for @reformthinktank.bsky.social publishes my essay on 'Rebooting Regionalism'. It sets out the case for very large 'provinces' for parts of England, with directly elected Governors. It's also a think-piece about the fundamental differences from place to place in England.

Exciting to see our first regionalism paper out today, building off the EDWP & setting out our stall for what a genuinely strategic regional tier should look like 👇

Report launch eve excitement here @reformthinktank.bsky.social 🤯 V much looking forward to this tomorrow, courtesy of @stkaye.bsky.social.

Great to publish this today! AI has the potential to unlock huge public sector productivity gains... and yet adoption remains patchy & slow. The main problem? It's not financial or regulatory, but cultural 🤯

🚨Calling all civil servants! Tell us what you think. We @reformthinktank.bsky.social are teaming up with Civil Service World to ask the civil service about what's affecting them with our Alternative People Survey! dods.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Always exciting on report launch eve @reformthinktank.bsky.social! One more sleep. cc @seaneke.bsky.social

🚨NEW REPORT: Innovating for independence: a win-win for health and social care Today, Reform publishes a new briefing paper setting out how tech can help deliver better outcomes for social care users, while also release urgently needed capacity in the health and care system 🧵

And here is @floconway.bsky.social's blog summarising the key takeaways...👇 reform.uk/comment/the-...

“Making sand think” (through the acceleration of AI development) is the most significant technological development of the 21st Century. The Government is "all-in on AI", and I really welcome Matt Clifford's Action Plan. Reflections from my time working on AI with govt 🧵

Great to write this yesterday about the govt's ai opportunities plan, looking at the plans to scan, pilot & scale ai within the public sector 👇

Providing expert input to our work in 2025, we're delighted to announce three new members of our Reimagining Whitehall Steering Group: Dr Michelle Clement, Lecturer at The Strand Group Prof Sir Anthony Finkelstein CBE, President, City St George's Claudia Harris OBE, CEO, Makers

🚨NEW REPORT: In our first paper of 2025, @jo3hill.bsky.social writes about how government should invest in digital transformation, and the challenges of doing so in a system which wasn't designed for funding cutting-edge tech. We call for a new approach ahead of the Spending Review.

Right folks, I know, it’s 16 Dec & you’re mostly panicking about the C’mas presents you haven’t bought/feeling smug ‘cos you’re so ready for the festivities, but spare a thought for @stkaye.bsky.social & @indiaww.bsky.social who have poured over the 118 page devo white paper so you don’t have to! 🧵