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		<title>Unlocking local capacity &#8211; local authority entrepreneurship</title>
		<link>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/02/20/unlocking-local-capacity-local-authority-entrepreneurship/</link>
		<comments>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/02/20/unlocking-local-capacity-local-authority-entrepreneurship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OPM</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unlocking local capacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[councils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative Councils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[entrepreneurial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hywel Lloyd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local authorities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NESTA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unlocking Local Capacity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Hywel Lloyd, OPM senior fellow. This is the latest in a series of posts in anticipation of new research from OPM about what local government can do to unlock local capacity. To find out more about the free evening &#8230; <a href="http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/02/20/unlocking-local-capacity-local-authority-entrepreneurship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A simple way to support migrant and refugee community organisations</title>
		<link>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/02/17/a-simple-way-to-support-migrant-and-refugee-community-orgs/</link>
		<comments>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/02/17/a-simple-way-to-support-migrant-and-refugee-community-orgs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OPM</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unlocking local capacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community project leads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[migrants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohini Khanna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MRCF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unlocking Local Capacity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Mohini Khanna, OPM researcher. In my spare time, I volunteer with the Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum (MRCF), based in west London. Set up almost 20 years ago, MRCF is a ‘user-led, community forum working to promote the rights &#8230; <a href="http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/02/17/a-simple-way-to-support-migrant-and-refugee-community-orgs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Simple but powerful: making community leadership work in practice</title>
		<link>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/02/16/simple-but-powerful-making-community-leadership-work-in-practice/</link>
		<comments>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/02/16/simple-but-powerful-making-community-leadership-work-in-practice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OPM</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unlocking local capacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community organising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil Copestake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sunderland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Phil Copestake, OPM principal. This is the latest in a series of posts in anticipation of new research from OPM about what local government can do to unlock local capacity. To find out more about the free evening seminar on Tuesday &#8230; <a href="http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/02/16/simple-but-powerful-making-community-leadership-work-in-practice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Putting public assets back in community hands</title>
		<link>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/02/03/putting-public-assets-back-in-community-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/02/03/putting-public-assets-back-in-community-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OPM</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mutuals and social enterprises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unlocking local capacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asset transfer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robin Clarke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social enterprises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unlocking Local Capacity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Robin Clarke, OPM fellow. This is the latest in a series of posts in anticipation of new research from OPM about what local government can do to unlock local capacity. To find out more about the free evening seminar on Tuesday &#8230; <a href="http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/02/03/putting-public-assets-back-in-community-hands/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Releasing the talents of isolated older people</title>
		<link>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/01/31/releasing-the-talents-of-isolated-older-people/</link>
		<comments>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/01/31/releasing-the-talents-of-isolated-older-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OPM</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Unlocking local capacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ageing Well]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asset-based approaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clive Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community assets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[older people]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Clive Miller, OPM principal. This is the latest in a series of posts in anticipation of new research from OPM about what local government can do to unlock local capacity. To find out more about the free evening seminar on Tuesday &#8230; <a href="http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/01/31/releasing-the-talents-of-isolated-older-people/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What can &#8216;the beautiful game&#8217; teach us about how to unlock local capacity?</title>
		<link>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/01/23/what-can-the-beautiful-game-teach-us-about-how-to-unlock-local-capacity/</link>
		<comments>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/01/23/what-can-the-beautiful-game-teach-us-about-how-to-unlock-local-capacity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OPM</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unlocking local capacity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah McDonnell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unlocking Local Capacity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://opmblog.co.uk/?p=2879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sarah McDonnell, OPM senior researcher, with an introduction from Phil Copestake, OPM principal. At OPM we know that whatever councillors and officers in local government feel about ‘open public services’ and ‘the big society’, few disagree that with much &#8230; <a href="http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/01/23/what-can-the-beautiful-game-teach-us-about-how-to-unlock-local-capacity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why employee owners must be more than just shareholders</title>
		<link>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/01/17/why-employee-owners-must-be-more-than-just-shareholders/</link>
		<comments>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/01/17/why-employee-owners-must-be-more-than-just-shareholders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OPM</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mutuals and social enterprises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co-operatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mutuals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil Copestake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social enterprises]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Phil Copestake, OPM principal. The Deputy Prime Minister&#8217;s speech yesterday highlighted a paradox at the heart of the employee ownership business model. You can&#8217;t have a mutual without actual shared ownership, and yet owning shares does not in and &#8230; <a href="http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/01/17/why-employee-owners-must-be-more-than-just-shareholders/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Putting patients at the heart of changes to the NHS</title>
		<link>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/01/12/putting-patients-at-the-heart-of-changes-to-the-nhs/</link>
		<comments>http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/01/12/putting-patients-at-the-heart-of-changes-to-the-nhs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OPM</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health and well-being]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthcare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NHS South West London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patient and public involvement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Ewan King, OPM director, and Robin Clarke, OPM fellow The mantra ‘no decision about me without me’ that underpins the Health and Social Care Bill is a good one – it tries to draw out in simple language the power &#8230; <a href="http://opmblog.co.uk/2012/01/12/putting-patients-at-the-heart-of-changes-to-the-nhs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time for community-led community cohesion</title>
		<link>http://opmblog.co.uk/2011/12/09/its-time-for-community-led-community-cohesion/</link>
		<comments>http://opmblog.co.uk/2011/12/09/its-time-for-community-led-community-cohesion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OPM</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cohesive communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Camden Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community cohesion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ewan King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taking Part Programme]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://opmblog.co.uk/?p=2818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ewan King, OPM director. There are signals emanating from Government that we will shortly see the long awaited strategy on community integration and cohesion. This is good news, as there was a creeping sense of despair amongst some working &#8230; <a href="http://opmblog.co.uk/2011/12/09/its-time-for-community-led-community-cohesion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What’s so good about coaching &#8230; for the coach?</title>
		<link>http://opmblog.co.uk/2011/12/07/what%e2%80%99s-so-good-about-coaching-for-the-coach/</link>
		<comments>http://opmblog.co.uk/2011/12/07/what%e2%80%99s-so-good-about-coaching-for-the-coach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OPM</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership and management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coachee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ILM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[managers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organisational development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[programme]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By David Love, OPM principal Coaching is good for you. There’s increasing evidence that coaching has benefits for coachees and their organisations. I’m also seeing a diminishing sense of coaching as an expensive luxury, given its power in getting to &#8230; <a href="http://opmblog.co.uk/2011/12/07/what%e2%80%99s-so-good-about-coaching-for-the-coach/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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