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  • March 31, 2021
    Blog

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

    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...

  • March 15, 2021
    Blog

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

    "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"...

  • January 15, 2021
    Blog

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

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

  • December 2, 2020
    Blog

    Good Help in Rochdale: The Process Explained

    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...

  • December 2, 2020
    Blog

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

    “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...

  • October 22, 2020
    Blog

    UNIVERSAL CREDIT AND GOOD HELP

    "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."...

  • October 21, 2020
    Blog

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

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

  • July 13, 2020
    Blog

    UNLOCKING POTENTIAL AFTER LOCKDOWN

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

  • November 9, 2018
    Blog

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

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

  • November 9, 2018
    Blog

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

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

  • March 9, 2018
    Blog

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

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

  • February 14, 2018
    Blog

    PUTTING PEOPLE AT THE HEART OF SERVICES AND SYSTEMS

    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 ...

  • February 7, 2018
    Blog

    We cannot afford to keep providing ‘bad help’, too much is at stake

    The ‘bad help’ that dominates our services has huge social and financial costs. There is an alternative...

  • September 18, 2017
    Blog

    Is all help good? What makes help, unhelpful?

    Today we face a paradox, that many of the activities designed to help people actually appear to undermine their ability to improve their own lives....


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