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November 2023: Engage Britain has now merged with Demos. You can still find all our work from 2019-2023 here, but to get in touch or find out about our new ventures, go to https://demos.co.uk/

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‘We need to talk about the social care system and the health system as separate. Because the health system gets everything’
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Zoe, a member of the Social Care Change group, shares her reflections after the third set of sessions. “Lots of…read more

‘For men, conversation happens shoulder to shoulder. It’s health by stealth’
Men's Sheds shoulder to shoulder

How do you help men feel less lonely and isolated? Simple: create a shed. Robert Visintainer from the charity Men’s…read more

‘Change has got to come from everywhere. The whole sector’s got to be involved in this’
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Zoe, a member of the Social Care Change group, shares her reflections after the second set of sessions. “Hi, my…read more

What do the Change Group hope to achieve?

After their first couple of sessions, we caught with a few of the Social Care Change group. What do they…read more

‘We ‘other’ people all the time. It helps prop up our own worldview’
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What makes for a good conversation? Our editor sat down with author and designer Daniel Stillman to find out. What…read more

‘The group listened and supported each other. There was a safe, trusting atmosphere’
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Our Health and Care Director, Miriam Levin, shares her reflections on the latest Ideas for Change sessions The first Social…read more

‘At the end of the day, better care starts with treating staff better’

Our Health and Care Director, Miriam Levin, shares her reflections on the latest Ideas for Change sessions Before holding the…read more

‘People in positions of power need to give some of it away to citizens’
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What are we doing when we tell ourselves we’re Consumers 3,000 times a day? Author and co-founder of the New…read more

For the public, good healthcare is about relationships

John Hall gives an insight into the revelations from Engage Britain’s recent People’s Panel where members of the public discussed…read more

Community Corner: I am grateful for the care I have received
‘We experience the world as this battle between goodies and baddies. But it comes down to trade-offs’
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What makes us like some things and dislike others? And what drives our political and moral beliefs? We spoke with…read more

Our take: The government’s new social care white paper

Francis Elliott, Engage Britain’s Director of Advocacy, says: “Social care in this country has been collapsing over decades, and fixing…read more