As economic difficulties and strained public finances continue to dominate the headlines, demands for efficiency are ever more visible. In the US, Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been a disruptive and extraordinarily contentious example of this....
With another tight spending round for forces across England and Wales and a much more reform-minded Home Office, policing is undoubtedly facing a fresh wave of major change. We’ve written before about what this might mean for how policing is structured and...
In 2022, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act introduced the Serious Violence Duty. This legislation required local authorities and other public services to work together to prevent and reduce serious violence in their communities. In 2023, like many other...
In 2022, Avon and Somerset Police (1), like many police forces, were facing leadership challenges, with the force manging a rapidly expanding cohort of new recruits as a result of the national recruitment drive for the Police Uplift Programme. The Challenge The...
Welcome back to your first Leapwise blog of 2025! We hope you had a good break – especially readers who were working hard in public services where Christmas often means higher demand, rather than a quieter few weeks. As we reflect on 2024, it’s worth recognising how...
Earlier this week, Leapwise and the Police Foundation (1) co-published a brand-new policy paper: ‘Fit for the Future: the case for a reformed national policing landscape.’ If you didn’t catch it, you can find the full version here. We also published a launch op-ed (2)...
