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Our Health and Care Director, Miriam Levin, shares her reflections on the latest Ideas for Change sessions We’ve taken the People’s Panel on a quite intense journey since autumn last year. Usually with things like Citizen Assemblies, people come to a series of sessions, they might hear a bit about what happens after, but then
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Our Health and Care Director, Miriam Levin, shares her reflections on the latest Ideas for Change sessions The Social Care Change group has been set this massive challenge: how to fix social care staffing. Until now, the sessions have been setting the scene. These two workshops were the first time people started sharing practical suggestions.
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Zoe, a member of the Social Care Change group, shares her reflections after the third set of sessions. “Lots of ideas today. Lots of stuff around the fact that the last one that we did, there were 120 ideas that came out to try and fix this. And I found that really interesting, actually. Because
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How do you help men feel less lonely and isolated? Simple: create a shed. Robert Visintainer from the charity Men’s Sheds explains how tea, biscuits and a workbench can turn lives around. What is Men’s Sheds? Imagine a man suddenly finds himself retired, no longer in work, perhaps bored, lonely, isolated, keeping himself to himself
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Zoe, a member of the Social Care Change group, shares her reflections after the second set of sessions. “Hi, my name is Zoe Richardson. I’m just doing a bit of reflection on what we talked about today. Pretty overwhelming, if I’m honest. It kind of highlighted to me just how much there is that needs
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Power of the community – hard times bringing us closer together… New research today reveals that hard times, including the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis, are bring many communities closer together. In the research, commissioned by Engage Britain and conducted by Opinium, a third (35%) of UK adults say over the last two years they
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Millions suffer poor care due to overstretched NHS and social care staff New polling from Engage Britain shows that one in four adults say they, or an immediate family member, have received poor NHS care due to workforce problems. This polling was published in The Observer. The People’s Panel brought together 100 people to consider
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After their first couple of sessions, we caught with a few of the Social Care Change group. What do they hope to achieve by taking part? ALAN: You’ve got to make the system from the bottom up. With people who are on the shop floor, as it were. Or we’ll end up with a system
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What makes for a good conversation? Our editor sat down with author and designer Daniel Stillman to find out. What got you interested in studying how conversations work? My background is in industrial design, and then interaction and digital product design. Industries where designing for people is rampant and designing with people is rare. It’s
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Hear straight from the people in the room. Scroll down for the latest diary updates, soundbites and quotes.
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Our Health and Care Director, Miriam Levin, shares her reflections on the latest Ideas for Change sessions The first Social Care Change group meeting brought together a whole range of people from across social care. With very different roles or experiences of how things tick. Nobody knew each other. So I wasn’t sure how well,