Dave Clements is an adviser to local government with over two decades experience writing policy and strategy, and leading community engagement initiatives, amongst other things – predominantly for children’s and adult’s services, and across public and voluntary sector partnerships. He is also contributing co-editor of The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated (Pluto, 2008), author of the thinkpiece Social Care for Free Citizens (Manifesto Club, 2010). An archive of his writing can be found here.