An enabling state is one that seeks to address stubborn inequalities of outcome and gives people and communities more control over the public services they receive to improve their own wellbeing. This report provides a detailed review of participative, outcomes-based policy making since 2013 and details what each shift has entailed.

This publication brings together practical examples of things that can be done to create the conditions for kindness. It also highlights the barriers to relationships within organisations, and posits kindness as a radical concept that demands challenging the systems and structures that currently govern our institutions.

This report considers the rationale for how digital transformation could support for public libraries in the United Kingdom. It forms the next phase in a sequence of reports and roundtable conversations about how the idea of a “single digital presence” (a term coined by William Sieghart) proposition could support the public library sector.

In 2018-2019 Woods and Perrin developed a public policy proposal to improve the safety of some users of internet services in the United Kingdom through a statutory duty of care enforced by a regulator. Their work, under the aegis of Carnegie UK Trust, took the form of many blog posts, presentations and seminars. This paper...

Engaging Libraries was an experiment: a pilot programme designed to support public libraries to work in collaboration with others and to move beyond health promotion to explore new and dynamic ways to spark curiosity and conversation about health and wellbeing in communities.