Innovation from the Regions: How public services can be revolutionised within places

Event location: Britannia Two room, Holiday Inn Express, L3 4AD

Panellists:

• Susan Jarvis, Co-Director, Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool 
• Jack Shaw, Director of Groundwork Research, Fellow at the Productivity Institute, Chair of the Labour Housing Group
• Racheal Jones, Chief Executive Officer, One Knowsley 
• Kirsty McLean, Executive Director, Public Sector Innovation, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. 
• More speakers TBA

There is pressing need for radically different approaches to the design and delivery of public services. The Government has recognised this, developing innovative practice through missions and test-and-learn experiments. But perhaps the most promising avenue for the creation of a more innovative, entrepreneurial, and asset-based approach to public services emerges from devolution.   

By taking context-sensitive and localised approaches, devolved bodies can become laboratories for the public services within their jurisdictions: implementing new technologies, integrating efforts across siloes, putting data to the best possible use, and empowering their front line to solve problems and work co-productively with the communities that they serve.   

Re:State is delighted to hold this Labour Party Conference panel with Kirsty McClean, Executive Director of Public Sector Innovation, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority; Susan Jarvis, Co-Director, Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool; Racheal Jones, Chief Executive Officer, One Knowsley; Jack Shaw, Director of Groundwork Research; and more guests to be confirmed, to explore the role of devolution – and stronger, more autonomous local systems generally – in the push for more innovative public services.  

This event is kindly sponsored by Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.