By Samantha Jury-Dada

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking: “Today, I am going to be uncurious at work.”  Yet most of us who have worked in social care can recall a case that made us wonder why those involved failed to look beyond what was being presented at the time and dig deeper.

I’ve spent ten years working in public service transformation and my career has been marked by a common thread: responding to people whose lives could have been dramatically altered earlier by professional curiosity.

By Chris Twigg, Chief Executive

Growing a business to respond to a growing market need is both a privilege and a test. ICC was set up more than a decade ago to support the public sector, and in the years since, we have worked hard with clients to build local government organisations fit for a century in which people’s lives have changed dramatically.

By Lucy Webb and Roland Karthaus

The government’s plan to build new towns has largely been framed as a way to build thousands of new homes. But this agenda is a chance to do far more: to create new economic, social and cultural infrastructure that can drive prosperity and good lives for all as well as stimulate the regeneration of existing towns and neighbourhoods.

by Evie John, Managing Director

Right now, the UK is a jumble of places subject to a patchwork approach to governance, funding and powers. This follows years of competitive funding rounds and selective, inconsistent approaches to devolution. The whole has been left less than the sum of its parts.

All of us who work with local and regional government know there is huge potential waiting to be unleashed – self-sustaining, resilient communities with safe homes, social infrastructure and education that leads to secure jobs and good lives for all.