An innovative programme led by Dr. Jon Bashford and Joel Rennie, culminating in a new take on employment solutions, suggested and led by local people – a community-designed Job Fair held at a local community centre, attended by 12 system partners, in a show of putting talk into action and directly tackling some of the challenges presented to us by the community.
The Care Tech Campus Challenge Fund, launched in May 2023, serves as an early demonstration project for the core principles and benefits of the Care Technology Campus in Essex, which is seeking provide increased practical support for Commissioners in advancing innovations in care across Essex.
An innovative approach to NHS and social care recruitment and retention was presented by Jacqui Gibson & Sherife Hasan during Breaking Barriers Innovations (BBI) recent More and Different – Improving Pathways into Employment workshop.
An innovative approach to NHS and social care recruitment and retention was presented by Jacqui Gibson & Sherife Hasan during Breaking Barriers Innovations (BBI) recent More and Different – Improving Pathways into Employment workshop.
Dr Jon Bashford, Research Programme Director, and Rahim Daya, Senior Programme Manager at Breaking Barriers Innovations have conducted a strategic mapping for a programme of work aimed at reducing the health and social harms associated with unemployment and being socially isolated and lonely in Lambeth.
George Evans-Jones, Programme Manager, and Anushka Naidu, Programme Executive at Breaking Barriers Innovations have conducted a Playbook for Place on behalf of Swale Borough Council and their partners. This concludes with a focus on equitable access to skills, competencies & opportunities for residents.
Jon Bashford, Director of Research at Breaking Barriers Innovations, discusses the Clacton Place programme and how this will be working with NHS England and NHS Improvement to as part of the Core20Plus5 programme.
In May this year, Breaking Barriers Innovations was invited to submit evidence to the Health Devolution Commission, drawn from the place-based programmes we have been working on in partnership with Health Education England (HEE). These programmes address the social determinants of health, including considering the education, training and workforce transformation implications at a local and national level.
The word unprecedented has been widely used in relation to the Coronavirus crisis. But whilst it may have been unprecedented, it was not unpredicted. The government ran an exercise modelling its response to a pandemic in 2016, with a pandemic being the top risk on the government’s National Security Risk Assessment for some time; however key lessons have clearly not been learnt.
Whitehall today grapples with the crisis of a generation. This crisis divides the major parties, has lain waste to electoral campaigns, and has already cost the country hundreds of millions of pounds in emergency funding, just to tread water. Yet despite this issue’s seriousness and its potential consequences for people’s lives, public understanding of it remains dismal. But this issue is not Brexit, but adult social care.