David Durant
1 min readOct 30, 2024

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Great as ever James. The whole part in section 3 on enabling local communities to build their own support systems that focus on support through sustained community building immediately reminded very strongly of the examples in Hilary Cottam's Radical Help and what's been happening recently in Barking and Dagenham. As Richard Pope says in Platformland - government is currently almost entirely focused on the minimal effort way to deliver a specific policy outcome (e.g. to target a measurable small part of a potential overall large set of overlapping issues) often leading people to need to interact with multiple government representatives in a highly counterproductive way. My personal focus tends to be on the digital delivery part of government so section 2 has a strong draw but it's section 3 that I feel is the direction we have to move in and the firmly siloed nature of our organisations and planning means I can't see how we get there from here.

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David Durant
David Durant

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Ex GDS / GLA / HackIT. Co-organiser of unconferences. Opinionated when awake, often asleep.

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