Forum and project on Equality Exchange

The British Council’s project on Equality Exchange

The British Council Denmark is one of the PP Platform’s ongoing collaborators. Today their project Equality Exchange – an initiative aiming at putting equality at the heart of public service innovation, is launching a new report on ‘Perspectives from UK on Equality, Equity and Public Services’.

With arguments as societies are changing: increasingly diverse communities, local economic variations, aging populations and technological advances all contribute to a new backdrop upon which our lives unfold. The Equality Exchange project tries to address and answer some of these new forms of change in society in a UK/Nordic perspective, and try to bring to the table new forms of debate and sources of ideas and inspiration. The project takes form as a forum for ideas, inspiration and skills that relate to how public services can contribute to fairer, more inclusive and more equal societies.

Amongst others the project looks at already existing forms of innovative initiatives going on in the Nordic countries and the UK. Exchanging such real-live cases cross boarders change programs will be an effective and adaptable supplement to thinking and acting strategically about these tasks. Read much more about the project here.
 

Perspectives from UK on Equality, Equity and Public Services

The report which is launched today consists of 5 think pieces. The primary focus of collecting these ‘essays’ from different experts and thought leaders is argued to be threefold: to build a solid base of understanding in the field, to provide a common point of reference for project partners and to highlight just some of the innovative and successful case studies already underway.

In the report you can read about:
- Equality and equity through progressive public-sector spending, by Niel McInroy, Centre for Local Economic Strategies.
- Equality, equity and choice, by David Boyle, New Weather Institute
- Public services and equality: why it matters, and why we need a new approach, by Henry Kippin, RSA 2020 Public Services
- Public services and (in)equality in an age of austerity, by Joe Penny, New Economics Foundation
- Reducing health inequalities – the challenge of public health, by John Craig, Innovation Unit

The five essays have been written from a UK perspective, but with relevance to Nordic countries. These articles will be supplemented by complementary think-pieces written from Nordic viewpoints in the coming months.

Download the report here.