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Time to ditch the RAS? Part 2.
In an entry a couple of weeks ago, I identified three problems with the current way in which an individual’s needs are assessed, then their ability to pay, and then their social care entitlement...
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Red tape cut for care and support services
You spend a lot more time lobbying for change than seeing it in our line of work, so today’s new guidance from the Department of Transport, which should make it much easier for care and support...
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Monthly bulletin
Here’s the latest bulletin from Shared Lives Plus: NAAPS UK re-launches as Shared Lives Plus For over 20 years NAAPS has been the UK body for Shared Lives (originally known as Adult Placement) and...
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Are Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) the Next Small Thing (NST)
I sometimes think we need a name for those ideas which, whilst they are not necessarily nonsense, get blown up on rather shaky evidence, into the next big thing. They are usually ideas that: have a...
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Charity rebranding on less than a shoe string
Unless you’re one of my regular readers (Hi Mum!), the chances are you’ve never heard of NAAPS UK, which for almost 20 years had been the national network for an equally under-appreciated form of...
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Taking gambles that pay off
This is the third blog I’m writing off the back of a seminar with social care leaders which looked at the question of citizen and community-led change. One of the debates we had on the day was the age...
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Setting the pace in Derby
Promote Ability Community Enterprise, known as p.a.c.e, is a community interest company set up by Debbie Jones and Craig Fletcher. Through their 23 years of experience of front line work for the City...
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Micro solutions to huge NHS problems
I spoke at the NHS Confederation conference yesterday about micro-scale and community-based approaches to health care, which was the subject of a paper I wrote for NHS Confed recently (“Working...
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Making the right connections
My blog on taking an assets-based approach to healthcare reform, particularly where public health and other behaviour changes are required, is on PublicService.co.uk here: http://bit.ly/LJRVab Simply...
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Why we need the government to act on the Choice Review
With some of our partner organisations, we wrote an open letter last week to Care Minister Norman Lamb MP, urging him to act on the recent Cabinet Office review of choice in public services, which...
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It’s ‘voluntary’ but not optional
I’m re-blogging the post below from http://www.voluntarysectorhealthcare.org.uk/vcse-review/ which is the website for a review of investment in the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE)...
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Charities, community groups and social enterprises at the heart of health and...
Today we launch the final report and recommendations from the Joint Review of the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector’s role in the health and care system. This follows a year and a...
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I have come to the end of my role as independent chair of The Joint VCSE Review which took hundreds of views from voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations and developed actions,...
View ArticleMeeting as equals
My new report, Meeting as equals: Creating asset-based charities which have real impact, will be published by the RSA and NCVO and launched online at an RSA seminar on Thurs 28th January 2021: here...
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