Our insights
We are committed to ‘learning in the open’—sharing our insights openly and honestly, while actively inviting engagement and further exploration to drive collective progress towards a brighter future for all babies, children and young people.
Staking the ground
We have the ‘software’ to transform children’s lives, but we are trying to run it on fragmented ‘hardware’. In this follow-up article, Sam moves from the ‘why’ to the ‘where,’ arguing that the “postcode cluster” is the essential architectural unit for systemic change.
The mismatch: When vertical systems meet horizontal lives
Imagine a school that is nailing it. The curriculum is perfectly sequenced, the culture is warm and demanding, the internal machine hums with clinical efficiency. Yet, despite this rigour, some metrics are moving in the wrong direction. In this article, Sam argues that we are witnessing a structural mismatch: our institutions are engineered for vertical accountability while our children live horizontal lives, before hinting at what an alternative might look like.
Building the workforce that children deserve
Schools see part of the picture. Social care sees another. Health sees another still. But the child—the elephant in the room—remains fragmented between them. As we launch the Centre for the Children’s Workforce, Managing Director, Ned Younger argues for a connected, community-rooted workforce built around the child, not the system.