The first half of this film from the Social Care Institute for Excellence champions a fantastic timebanking approach to mental health day services in Camden. The second half tells us how personal budgets can be used to keep people well.
2024 marks 7 years of Ideas Alliance. Over that time we’ve grown from a small story sharing platform to a social consultancy on a mission to make co-production and collaboration the norm across the country. Co-founder Helen Sharp starts our celebrations by looking back at how it all started and what's coming next.
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Ideas Alliance co-founder Helen Sharp kicks off the new year reflecting on how exciting it is to see the health and social care commissioning landscape shift slowly as more people take up the co-production and collaborative commissioning banner.
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Celebrating and learning more about CHWA Awards joint winner, The Grenfell Memorial Community Mosaic, which has brought almost 1,000 local people from North Kensington together to make large scale public artworks. Co-created with individuals and local community, resident, faith and school groups under the guidance of mosaic artists Emily Fuller and Tomomi Yoshida.
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