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				<title>Streets infested with children</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/streets-infested-with-children</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ If it was not for the word 'infested' this could be a positive headline. During Cadence's consultation on children's play in Somerset someone said that 'the message to children and young people, from adults, about their place in the public realm is very confusing - they want them away from the TV and Playstations, but not playing outside near their homes'. It always seemed a succint way of capturing the current confusion in the public discourse about the youth of today. The person who came up with this quote worked for Barnardo's and it is their survey that found that 35% agreed with the proposition that 'nowadays it feels like the streets are infested with children'... more
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Certainty - at any cost?</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/Certainty-at-any-cost</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Donald Rumsfeld's famous "unknown unknowns" phrase got an airing on a Radio 4 discussion about politicans and uncertainty on Sunday. The point being made was that politicians are not allowed to admit they don't know something: the public demand certainty from them. Baronness Estelle Morris ... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Social mobility and Obama 2</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/social-mobility-and-obama-2</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Last weeks Cabinet Office report on social mobility has caused a stir. There is a feeling that the way it was spun to the newspapers lead to a focus on only a small part of the evidence. Or as Danny Dorling puts it in a Compass article - 'Do 3 points make a trend?'... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Designing out crime initiative</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/designing-out-crime-initiative</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ The Home Office backing an intiative to develop new and innovative design solutions to 'help prevent robbery, to crime-proof hot new gadgets and to embed public safety in the design of new public spaces and housing'. It will focus on crime problems that particularly affect young people. This is interesting to us in the context research proposal looking at the relationship between mode of transport and perceptions of young people's behaviour ... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Social mobility and Obama</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/social-mobility-and-obama</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ If Obama becomes President one of his biggest problems will be attempting to deal with the huge weight of expectation that has grown during the campaign. He might do well to look to the UK, where an enormous number of people feel who were very excited in 1997, now feel diappointed with Labour's impact. One area where progress in the UK has not met expectation is social mobility.

Cadence collaborator Professor Danny Dorling has done a lot work in this area and pointed us towards the new Cabinet Office Report released today, that suggests that it 'might start to rise in the future'... more
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				<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Public value and staff engagement</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/public-value-and-staff-engagement</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ The Work Foundation's recent work on public value is interesting. We like their idea of public services 'hitting the target, but missing the point' ... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Olympic parade and school sport</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/olympic-parade-and-school-sport</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ This week the Government released a press release saying that record number are now doing PE and school sport. This is a success story, but does it have anything at all to do with the Olympics? ... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Olympic legacy and financial crisis</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/olympic-legacy-and-financial-crisis</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ With high profile Premier League football teams' sponsors going bust or being bailed out (if there is a difference between those two events) the implications of the credit crunch on sport have already been highlighted in the media. There has also been some discussion of how the 2012 Olympics will need to be cheaper/nationalised/smaller. More worrying is that it sounds like the financial crisis is also offering the opportunity for the planners of the Games to wriggle out of their commitments to grassroots sport and increased participation ... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Co-design and old fashioned banking</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/co-design-and-old-fashioned-banking</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Cadence's work on public service innovation has involved some thought around how the full involvement of users and front line workers might work. This is in some ways a response to the generally accepted view that the days of centrally determined targets and processes are numbered. While the current focus of the banking crisis is very much on how naughty the bosses of banks have been in lending to people and organisations who were too risky, there will come a time when we all have to look at ourselves and recognise our own roles in creating this situation.

Is it time for a return for the days when those who wanted a loan or mortgage had to make an appointment to see their local bank branch manager? ... more
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				<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Child pedestrian casualties and inequality</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/child-pedestrian-casualties-and-inequality</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ As football commentators like to put it, it was déjà vu all over again with the Guardian’s recent article ‘Pedestrian road deaths linked to deprivation’. A not dissimilar headline to the 2002 article that said ‘Road death risk higher for deprived children’. Has anything changed? ... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Broken society and traffic?</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/broken-society-and-traffic</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ At last! Someone has re-created the seminal 1969 Appleyard and Lintell San Fransisco study in the UK. The original study found that 'the weight of traffic in urban areas largely determined people's quality of life and also identified a major erosion of community on busy streets'. More ...
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				<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Banking crisis lessons on incentives</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/banking-crisis-lessons-on-incentives</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Learning from the private sector is something that the public sector is often urged to do. This normally means something about efficiency getting results, the inference is that the public should be more like the private. It's not just the CBI who say this kind of thing, organisations like the Local Government Association quite happily put out press releases saying 'Councils can learn from best in private sector'. The current global financial uncertainty/crisis must have lessons too, but perhaps more about what not to do. 

Cadence has taken an interest in the role of incentives in promoting innovation and it does seem that the banking industry has been very keen on the use of cash bonus incentive systems in recent years ... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>RSA Tipton Academy and innovation</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/rsa-tipton-academy-and-innovation</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ The Government's Acadamies initiative has always been controversial, largely because of the nature of some of the sponsors, particularly those with their 'Christian ethos'. What has perhaps been lost in the media coverage has been that their overall aim is to to try and create distincitive, innovative schools in more deprived areas that the more aspirational local families choose as oppose to travelling to higher performing schools in more affluent neighbourhoods. That might explain why one of the most quintessentially Blairite policies has not been axed by Gordon Brown, even if innovation in many cases has been restricted to having fancy buildings.

The start of the 2008-09 Academic Year sees a whole new raft opening including the RSA sponsored Academy in Tipton in the West Midlands which sounds like it really is innovative ... more
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				<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Team sports to blame for obesity?</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/team-sports-to-blame-for-obesity</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ A BBC report on Loughborough University research has suggested that, 'an over-emphasis on competitive team sports in schools is being blamed for "marginalising" the wider efforts to promote physical exercise'.
The Government say they are 'bemused' ... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Clubs for Young People Blueprint</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/clubs-for-young-people-blueprint</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ The first Hearing for the Blueprint for structured community youth work in clubs takes place this week. An interesting selection of experts will give evidence on what they think makes a great club. This follows coverage of research into the relationship between ASBOs and clubs ... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Women, role models, Gold and participation</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/women-gold-and-participation</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Great performances by Nicole Cooke and Rebecca Adlington in the first few days of the Olympics. The Cooke victory was particularly impressive and gritty. But, will these Golds do anything to increase female participation in cycling and walkking? History suggests not ... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Innovation everywhere ...</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/innovation-everywhere-...</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Innovation, innovation everywhere, but what to think? Ex-Head of Policy and Strategy at No.10 and now Chief Exec of the RSA, Matthew Taylor, is a big thinker and says in his recent blog that he has 'spending time recently with some amazing social innovators' ... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Youth justice and inequality</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/youth-justice-and-inequality</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ The reports of the apparent rise in extreme youth violence which have been highlighted in recent months is creating a lot of anxiety. Channel 4's series on the subject, Louise Casey's proposals and Imperial College's rejection of Majid Ahmed all contribute to an atmosphere of panic and outrage. Here Jeremy Cushing of the Cadence Network gives his personal view, with references to the role of inequality and restorative justice ... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Youth crime and role models</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/youth-crime-and-role-models</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ Today's announcement of the Youth Crime Action Plan coincided with Hazel Blears launching a search for role models to inspire Black boys. It's not clear whether this was intentional, probably not, but both are relevant to Cadence's work on a Blueprint for community based youth work. 

These two bits of news appear to link to another recent story, namely the resignation of Ray Lewis, Boris Johnson's Deputy. Was/is Ray Lewis perhaps the sort of role model the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government might be searching for? ... more
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				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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				<title>Innovate with users, says PM</title>
				<link>http://www.cadenceworks.co.uk/news-views/2008/PM</link>
				<description><![CDATA[ The Prime Minister has announced that he wants 'World Class Public Services'. He says for that for that to happen, 'means unlocking the creativity and ambition of public sector workers to innovate and drive up standards in partnership with service users', which fits very well with Cadence's recent work in this area ... more ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:30:35 +0100</pubDate>
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				<dc:creator>Karl Hallam</dc:creator>
				
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