We would like to thank everyone who participated in the conference.

Here are the presentation slides:

David Phillips, Institute for Fiscal Studies
The shape of pain to come - Welsh budget scenarios to 2025

Marks Jeffs, seconded to WPS2025 from the Wales Audit Office
Financial demand and other cost pressures

Anita Charlesworth, Nuffield Trust
A Decade of Austerity

Lisa Curtice’s People-Powered Health workshop
People-Powered Health visual minutes

Future Pressures on Wales Public Services

Mark Jeffs WPS2025 - Full Report

Mark Jeffs WPS2025 - Summary Report

Scenarios for the Welsh Government budget to 2025-26.

David Phillips - Wales Public Spending

The State of Innovation is a report by the philanthropic organisation, Carnegie UK Trust in partnership with the Wales Public Services 2025 programme.

The report reviews how other small countries - Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, Quebec, Scotland and New Zealand - have responded positively to the ‘perfect storm’ challenge. For example, rethinking relationships between citizens and local government in Molenwaard in the Netherlands or the Early Years Collaborative in Scotland focussing on outcomes for vulnerable children

Report Summaries:

Weathering the Storm? A look at small countries’ public services in times of austerity (summary)

Dod drwy’r gwaethaf? Golwg ar wasanaeth cyhoeddus gwledydd bychain mewn cyfnod o lymder (Crynodeb)

Full report (only available in English)

Weathering the storm? A look at small countries’ public services in time of austerity

The State of Innovation is a report by the UK innovation foundation, Nesta in partnership with the Wales Public Services 2025 programme.

The report reviews public innovation in Wales and argues that the transition from individual innovations to action which transforms services across Wales requires a series of step-changes. These include strenthening the relationship between innovators, researchers and all levels of government; ensuring that public service leaders see innovation as core to delivery; making the best use of the contribution from civil society and the private sector, and financing public innovation in a more strategic way.

Full report:

State of Innovation: Welsh Public Services and Challenge of Change

Oes Arloesi: Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus Cymru A Her Newid

Thanks again to Laura Bunt of Nesta for leading a great interactive session on the Art of Exit, on 13th November 2012. Attached below are her slides from the event.

ArtofExit_Wales2025_13.11.12

Attached is the presentation used by Philip Colligan, Director of Nesta’s Public Services Lab, at the launch event in St Asaph on 24th April 2012. Some great insight - and big challenges - around innovation in public services.

Wales 2025 April 2012

Two of the four planned projects are well underway and should be reporting during the Spring 2013.

1. Weathering the storm: a rapid review of international experience

Funded by Carenegie UK. A study which reviews the way in which a number of other small countries / states are responding to fiscal, demographic and associated challenges for public services.

The countries / states involved are Denmark, Scotland, Quebec, Austria, New Zealand and the Netherlands.

2. Seeds of change: public innovations in Wales

Resourced by NESTA through two lead researchers appointed by NESTA . Aims of the project are:

• production of a baseline report which looks at the current state of public innovation in Wales, areas of potential and barriers. Report due Spring 2013.
• an innovation network which creates an alliance across innovators / practioners and would be a legacy of the project
• a report which sets out propositions (or business cases) for further development of public innovation in Wales.

The two projects still in development are:

3. Fiscal forecasts: trends and pressures to 2025 - due to start shortly

A report due in Summer 2013 setting out fiscal projections for Wales over the next 10 years, an assessment of the implications for public services of key social and economic trends such as the ageing society, future labour markets, the impact of welfare reform etc and scenarios for how the resulting pressures might be addressed.

4. Applied futures - visioning the future for public services in Wales - due to start Autumn 2013

A series of workshops with professionals, policy-makers and other experts which uses internationally developed futures techniques and draws on research evidence from the previous three projects and other sources to explore the long-term implications for public services of the pressures on finances and social / economic change and the response required by public services. It will focus on an innovative health and social care system.

Many thanks to everyone who participated in yesterday’s Cardiff launch event. There have been many requests for copies of the slides used. Please see below the two key slidesets used on the day.

Paul Johnson, Institute for Fiscal Studies, 9-2-12

Paul’s presentation was described as ‘shock and awe’, revealing in crystal clarity the financial challenges facing the UK over both the short and longer term.

Barry Vaughan, NESC, 9-2-12

Barry introduced an Irish project which explored how real innovations and innovators on the ground might be better supported in a context of uncertainty.

Information for participants at our launch conference, 9th February 2012:

Conference Agenda (final)

The conference will run from 8.30am to 2.30pm

Travel & Accommodation Information

Directions to ATRiuM and information on hotels in the vicinity

Speaker Biographies

A short introduction to our speakers: Julie Lydon, Rt Hon Carwyn Jones, Professor Ian Hargreaves, Paul Johnson, Ben Lucas, James Mitchell, Barry Vaughan, Dame Mavis McDonald DCB, Megan Mathias

Wales Public Services 2025, short brief

An introduction to the proposed programme

Wales Public Services 2025, draft programme outline

A discussion paper on a structure and approach for the programme

Ideas Sheet

A tool for capturing insights and ideas to inform Wales Public Services 2025

Wales PS 2025, Dec 2011 ’2 pager’

This briefing paper explains the genesis of this programme, and sets out our proposals for the next two years.