Life can change when you least expect it, and sometimes in very radical ways. That’s been my experience over the last couple of years.

The Covid-19 pandemic has placed a strain on all sectors of our economy, and whilst short-term schemes have prevented crisis-levels of unemployment in Britain, the impacts of the pandemic have not been distributed evenly.

As declared by Dr Dominique Hes in 2017, there is quite simply “no sustainability without community engagement”. The topic of how organisations bring their staff and customers ’with them’ on cultural and transformative journeys is never far away.

Good mental health and wellbeing mean different things to different people, and at Capita we want to make sure our employees have the support they need to figure out what it means to them.

The complex and challenging nature of delivering public services at a local level has never been under more pressure. Public service integration – collaboration between different services within local government and with external partners across other sectors – can make a very real and significant difference.

We consider how local authorities can navigate the twin tasks of reformed local service provision and successful placemaking in the short and medium term.

With this year’s Black History Month theme of ‘Saluting our sisters’, we’ve an opportunity to recognise the Black women shaping our country.

To get a better understanding of building energy consumption, we engaged SMS plc to apply metering and data expertise for valuable energy management insights.

The Government’s new planning White Paper has legal, social and practical implications for local councils, developers and residents.

While many companies may have paid lip service to the issue of racism in 2020, the unconscious, and sometimes explicit, bias of racism runs deep.