Most public problems aren't unsolved. They're undiagnosed.

Because systemic problems demand systemic solutions.

42 The Systemic Review applies systems practice to live problems in government, public services, and civil society – short, evidence-grounded analysis written by practitioners, for people who commission and shape policy.

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42-2026-00327 July 2026

Strengthening the Implementation of Every Child Achieving and Thriving

Written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Education Select Committee, arguing that the White Paper's ambitions depend on the behaviour of the whole children's system, not just institutional performance.

Select Committee EvidencePublic ServiceGovernance

42-2026-0028 July 2026

NEETs: A Systemic Diagnosis

Applying systems theory to the rise in young people not in education, employment or training – reading Alan Milburn's review through a structural rather than institutional lens.

Public ServiceCase Study

42-2026-0011 July 2026

Regulation in a Faster World

What the laws of systems theory reveal about the gap between how regulation is conventionally practised and how it now needs to behave.

GovernancePolicy

Why "42"? An answer is only meaningful if the question behind it was properly framed. Most policy failure starts upstream of the fix.

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