Hazel and Alica have been nominated for their amazing work with the Denbighshire Community Support Services Volunteers Project. It was set up at pace at the height of Covid 19. They have recruited and supported over 50 volunteers and careful matching with citizens has led to some fantastic outcomes for all. This award is for them and all the amazing Volunteers involved.
Cheshire West & Chester are the most recent area to join the network and are still in the very early stages of getting going. He is a reluctant but highly deserving Hero demonstrating the preparation that is possible, behind the scenes and on top of an already highly busy and pressured ‘day job’.
Andrew Dunston Brady has embraced strength based practice throughout his work and always strives to promote independence, control and self esteem with those he works with.
Mike Richardson explains why the recent report demonstrates a forest of impact, rather than just green shoots of hope, for strength-based practice in Adult Social Care.
Small Supports evaluation reports
Conversations have reflected a common view that commissioning, as it currently exists, has a number of common issues:
explores how individually designed and led, community-based supports have worked to protect both people’s health and human rights.
‘The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice’. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous quote is full of optimism, a sense that progress is inevitable. The notion that a hopeful future of greater equality, health and wellbeing is somehow preordained.
Through our Community Led Support (CLS) programme we are working with over 30 areas across the UK to transform the way they support people. Covid-19 has inevitably changed things but what has been the impact of CLS on this?
Covid-19 has shone a spotlight on issues that were known to exist but were not given prominent national focus. The implications of the pandemic, played out in the full glare of publicity, has cast a sharper light on issues of poverty, disability, minority ethnic communities and the unequal distribution of caring responsibilities.
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