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Nesta is a research and innovation foundation. We apply our deep expertise in applied methods to design, test and scale solutions to some of the biggest challenges of our time, working across the innovation lifecycle.

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Gavin Jones

Website: www.swindon.gov.uk

Started: 1997 

Based: Swindon

Since Gavin Jones joined in 2004, he has led the council's attempt to embed co-production into its work. 

The focus of these efforts has been the Life programme, which brings together a multidisciplinary team of 10 professionals, seconded from housing, police, Connexions, the NHS, children's and adult services. The team works intensively with at-risk and vulnerable families to turn their lives around over a two-year period.

Gavin is a trustee of the Prospect Hospice and Chairman of Forward Swindon, a regeneration and inward investment company. He is a board member of the New Local Government Network.

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