Enabling Social Action

| Greg Watson

In this video, Staffordshire County Council discusses its experience of commissioning social action to help communities take action on the issues they care about.

This follows a collaboration which took place from November 2015 to August 2016 between the government and the New Economics Foundation, which developed new resources for commissioners and public sector leaders to encourage them to adopt social action in commissioning.

You can find out more about this collaboration and the guidance it produced here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYRKHL78pGw

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