Here's an extraordinary story. But it should be much more ordinary. The reasons it isn't have a lot to do with how we are assuming our society should be organised from the top down, by big (increasingly privatised) organisations, and with a fair degree of homogenous '...
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Leadership may be the only way to humanise healthcare
My nine-year-old came back from school yesterday evening in a cynical mood. What had piqued his cynicism was the constant repetition, in rhetoric and on noticeboards, that his primary school is a 'Rights-Respecting School'. "They say they listen to us and ask our...
Why social care needs to go beyond needs
For the past generation, Western Australia has been pioneering a different way of organising social care. It was the brainchild of their new mental health commissioner Eddie Bartnik, and it flew in the face of conventional methods, which assess needs and try to slot...
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This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
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