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IT IS ENCOURAGING TO KNOW THAT WHAT WE STARTED INTUITIVELY IS BECOMING RECOGNISED AS BEST PRACTICE. WE HOPE TO SEE GOOD HELP PRINCIPLES MAINSTREAMED. TO DO THIS, FUNDERS NEED TO JOIN THE DOTS AND INVEST IN THESE APPROACHES.
- Jeff MitchellManaging Director, Clean Slate
AT LAST THERE IS A NATIONAL PROJECT THAT IS DRIVEN BY AND DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE LIKE US. THE WAY WE WORK IS AS IMPORTANT AS THE WORK WE DO. FINALLY WE ARE BEING UNDERSTOOD AND RECOGNISED FOR WHAT WE ARE DOING.
- Tracy FishwickManaging Director, Transform Lives
WE REALLY NEEDED GOOD HELP TO COME ALONG. IT HAS HELPED US BETTER EXPLAIN WHY WE MATTER, AND GIVEN US EVEN MORE CONFIDENCE TO STAND UP FOR WHAT WE ARE DOING.
- Clare WightmanCEO, Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire

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For many, vaccination is the start of the journey, not the end: Good Help in the fight against Covid

By Flynn Devine / January 15, 2021

How do we support the most vulnerable, not only with the vaccine, but life after it?

Good Help in Rochdale: The Process Explained

By Jo Weir / December 2, 2020

Good Help in Rochdale is a two-year reform and integration project designed to help the borough respond to crises created by the Covid-19 pandemic

GOOD HELP IN ROCHDALE: SEVEN REASONS WHY THE PROJECT IS WORKING IN THE ERA OF COVID

By Flynn Devine / December 2, 2020

“If it was as simple as just calmly moving people on from shop doorways and they wouldn’t return, obviously we’d do that” Mark Reynolds

UNIVERSAL CREDIT AND GOOD HELP

By Jo Weir / October 22, 2020

Universal Credit (UC) is the government's new social security programme, replacing 6 means tested benefits and tax credits. UC differs from

TO TRULY EMPOWER STUDENTS, FE MUST LET GO OF THE CINDERELLA NARRATIVE

By Jo Weir / October 21, 2020

Haunted by the soubriquet ‘Cinderella sector’, further education occupies an uneasy no-man’s-land between schools and universities in society’s thinking

UNLOCKING POTENTIAL AFTER LOCKDOWN

By Robin Layfield / July 13, 2020

In response to Covid-19 people and places across the UK are reinventing public services to help people flourish

THE ‘SECRET’ CIVIL SOCIETY STRATEGY IS MORE THAN A BIG SOCIETY REBOOT

By Jo Weir / November 9, 2018

You may not have noticed the new Civil Society Strategy, but take a look. This is serious policy-making.

WE MUST PRIORITISE CHANGING PUBLIC SERVICE SYSTEMS SO THEY SUPPORT ‘GOOD HELP’, SAY PRACTITIONERS AND COMMISSIONERS

By Jo Weir / November 9, 2018

“Too often it feels as if the systems we work in have been designed to inhibit us from really helping people to help themselves

TO MAKE HELP BETTER, SERVICES MUST LISTEN TO PEOPLE’S MOTIVATIONS AND DREAMS

By Jo Weir / March 9, 2018

Good and Bad Help is a welcome attempt to discover what it takes to develop the confidence to take action.

PUTTING PEOPLE AT THE HEART OF SERVICES AND SYSTEMS

By Robin Layfield / February 14, 2018

Good help means allowing people to take control of their lives and have a meaningful stake in their communities – excitingly, it represents a growing movement

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