“Despite waves of reform, reoffending rates in England and Wales have remained persistently high for the last 15 years. Yet evidence indicates that the vast majority of people in the criminal justice system (CJS) want to move away from crime.” ...
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...
"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"...
How do we support the most vulnerable, not only with the vaccine, but life after it?...
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...
“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...
"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."...
Haunted by the soubriquet ‘Cinderella sector’, further education occupies an uneasy no-man’s-land between schools and universities in society’s thinking...
In response to Covid-19 people and places across the UK are reinventing public services to help people flourish...
You may not have noticed the new Civil Society Strategy, but take a look. This is serious policy-making....
“Too often it feels as if the systems we work in have been designed to inhibit us from really helping people to help themselves...
Good and Bad Help is a welcome attempt to discover what it takes to develop the confidence to take action....
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 ...
The ‘bad help’ that dominates our services has huge social and financial costs. There is an alternative...
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....
