Don’t call it a week note

It's just rained. The sky's a kind of pinky grey blue. There's a rainbow, I'm out with the dog and I'm really hoping that Crystal Palace beat Manchester City this evening. (Note from the future: they did not.) I'm four weeks into a new role as deputy director in the Test, Learn & Grow (TLG) programme in Cabinet Office. We're working with ten places and local authorities on six missions - broadly around neighbourhood health, early years support, SEND, economic inactivity, violence against women and girls, and supporting children's social services. We call each of those teams 'accelerators'. The work is threefold: try some new interventions out, alongside communities and place partners, and see whether those interventions move the needle keep learning about the test and learn methodology, what works, what doesn’t, and to share that knowledge more widely and do what we can to change the central government system to make it easier for other teams to ‘do’ test & learn We're pretty…