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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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Good Help in Employment Support: What’s Happening Already?

Good Help in Employment Support: What’s Happening Already?

By Emma Kernahan and Jane Mansour  / March 31, 2021
A small snapshot of the many employment support practitioners inside and outside the mainstream UK employment system who acknowledge the social determinants of work and specialise in providing Good Help
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Recognising the social determinants of work: How mainstream employment support must change to meet the COVID unemployment crisis

Recognising the social determinants of work: How mainstream employment support must change to meet the COVID unemployment crisis

By Emma Kernahan and Jane Mansour  / March 15, 2021
"In the economic climate we are facing, inadequate employment support from our mainstream services means that millions may be left permanently disadvantaged in the labour market"
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For many, vaccination is the start of the journey, not the end: Good Help in the fight against Covid

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?
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Good Help in Rochdale: The Process Explained

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

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

By Helen Chicot  / 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
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UNIVERSAL CREDIT AND GOOD HELP

UNIVERSAL CREDIT AND GOOD HELP

By Emma Kernahan  / October 22, 2020
"In twenty years in the voluntary sector, I have never seen hope listed as an outcome. But in the business of making change, it is the only currency that counts."
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TO TRULY EMPOWER STUDENTS, FE MUST LET GO OF THE CINDERELLA NARRATIVE

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

By Lou Mycroft  / 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
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UNLOCKING POTENTIAL AFTER LOCKDOWN

UNLOCKING POTENTIAL AFTER LOCKDOWN

By Rich Wilson  / July 13, 2020
In response to Covid-19 people and places across the UK are reinventing public services to help people flourish
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THE ‘SECRET’ CIVIL SOCIETY STRATEGY IS MORE THAN A BIG SOCIETY REBOOT

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

By Rich Wilson  / November 9, 2018
You may not have noticed the new Civil Society Strategy, but take a look. This is serious policy-making.
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WE MUST PRIORITISE CHANGING PUBLIC SERVICE SYSTEMS SO THEY SUPPORT ‘GOOD HELP’, SAY PRACTITIONERS AND COMMISSIONERS

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

By Rich Wilson  / 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
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