About me

Hello.  Ben Bennetts.  Pleased to meet you.

Who, me?  Well.  Let’s see.  Father of daughters (the last census showed four); local government officer by day; live in a market town in southern England.

I’ve worked in a good many areas of local government – education, transport, environment, countryside and social care – and though I’m not a professional in any of these fields, I retain an interest in all of them.  My role has usually been about managing and implementing change.

I set up a company in 2005 providing mapping and environmental data to farmers and parish councils.  (Long story; click the LaMIS tag on my tag cloud to see more.) That kept me busy until 2007 when I returned to local government.

I’m an inveterate reader, fascinated with words, closely involved in a project called The Power of Language, and am also a Fellow of the RSA.

Posts are likely to reflect some, all or none of the above.  I will post about more or less anything that interests me.  Matthew Taylor asked me recently at an RSA event what the point of The Power of Language was; my reply (eventually):  ”A place to voice ideas that I think matter”.  The same is true of this blog.

Thanks for visiting.