Public Services
Our work is focused on reducing health inequalities and social isolation by moving to a new social settlement that broadens access, deepens value and raises the quality of our public services.
Britain's New Giants
Beveridge’s generation designed the welfare state to tackle the Five Giants of his day, so in the face of the New Giants our concern must be to revisit this challenge. Read Ed Cox's long-read article on Britain's New Giants.
People
We want to tackle economic insecurity by ensuring that every household has the foundations for a decent livelihood: a basic income, opportunities to learn new skills, somewhere to call home, and good physical and mental health.
Power and Place
We advocate for inspiring democratic reform to address the inequalities between different regions of the UK, while also emphasising the importance of building sustainable neighbourhoods and reduce the inequalities within local places.
Why we can’t tackle inequality without understanding place and ...
6th December 2018
To address inequalities we must recognise how they play out in different places, and not shy away from tough questions about local identities while empowering citizens to drive inclusive change.
Why public entrepreneurs must be at the frontline of slaying ...
5th December 2018
In our engagement during the course of 2018 we have identified inequality, isolation, intolerance, disempowerment and climate change as the modern equivalents of Beveridge’s original five ‘giant evils’ affecting the country. ...
People, Public Services, Place and Power: a new prospectus for ...
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3rd December 2018
Our poll on Britain's biggest challenges reveals that young people don’t support higher taxes, preferring to focus on volunteering and social action as ways to reduce inequality.
Related Projects
The RSA Food, Farming and Countryside Commission is a major, two-year independent inquiry, established to look at the food and farming system for the UK, the rural economy and a sustainable and accessible countryside.
Building on the agenda set out in the NHS Five Year Forward View, Health as a Social Movement is a new three year programme, to support social movements in health and care.
In the context of devolution, successful social and economic development strategies, will deploy new powers at the local and city scale. To make plans successful, they must be distinct, connected to the identity of citizens ...
OPSN is answering the need for a truer and more detailed picture of mental health and wellbeing across the UK with the launch of a new platform - OPSN Mental Health - in association with Mind.
Related Articles
Technocratic solutions on their own won’t address the big challenges we face. Is it time to get small ‘p’ political?
The public services team at the RSA has teamed up with Children England to investigate how to build a welfare state fit for children.
Kenny McCarthy explores how farmers in Devon and Dorset are responding to a changing world as part of the RSA Food, Farming and Countryside Commissions UK tour.
Following his first meeting with the Government's Industrial Strategy Council, Matthew Taylor offers three different types of industrial strategy interventions.
Related Publications
Just 21% of Britons we survey think the country will be better in 2030 than today. think In a series of four essays we map out how a more optimistic future might be secured.
A progress report from the RSA Food, Farming and Countryside Commission
This report describes the findings from a six-month inquiry where we applied the RSA’s model of change “think like a system, act like an entrepreneur” to the challenges of procuring and scaling innovation through government. ...
The RSA and NEF in partnership with NHS England publish a report to develop a community-led health system.