Get yourself connected 
Published by Abeda May 2, 2008 in Connected Care. 
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“I realised I was playing a small role of an exciting journey hoping to turn lives around, by getting involved, getting connected and being a small voice to make a difference to my community of Deane and Derby.”
Bolton’s becoming one of the first areas in the country to pilot Turning Point’s new way of designing and delivering services, called ‘Connected Care’. Local people are recruited as community researchers to interview people from their area to find out what kind of health and social care they want. That means those services can be improved, joined-up and made more accessible. See the coverage in the Bolton News.
I’m a community researcher, and I’ll be grabbing a clipboard and finding out what kind of services people in Derby and Deane want.
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Hard talking poverty
Published by Victor Adebowale August 16, 2007 in Connected Care, Social Care. Comments (2)
I was recently on the BBC’s HARDtalk programme. It’s a half-hour set piece television interview with Stephen Sackur. It was a relief to be on for longer than the eight seconds that a “soundbite” often gives us spokespeople.
Here’s HARDtalk’s introduction: ‘If you’re born very poor in Britain today, you probably have less chance of climbing up the socio-economic ladder than you would have had forty years ago.’
They wanted to talk to me as someone who works for a social enterprise that supports people in some of England and Wales’ poorest communities.
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Bringing sexy back: Getting coverage for “unfashionable” causes
Published by Steve Palmer July 23, 2007 in Connected Care, Social Care, Substance Misuse. Comments (3)
Earlier this month, MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski refused to read the item on Paris Hilton’s release from jail, because she said there were too many other important stories that day that should have lead the bulletin. She shredded the script live on air.
Mika felt honour-bound to point out that some stories, in her view, were high in the running order because they’re fashionable. Continue reading Bringing sexy back: Getting coverage for “unfashionable” causes
