We have been working alongside some pioneering commissioners and partners in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot as they transform the substance use services in their area. Here are our highlights from the co-design process.
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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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Nick Dixon explores how person and community centred approaches to health and social care are changing the landscape in Greater Manchester.
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The first instalment of a six-part series of blogs explores how devolution and a new health/ social-care prospectus can reform Manchester's public services.
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Stay Up Late are a Brighton based charity that create ways for people with learning disabilities to go out and enjoy nightlife.
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We go back to the Bromley by Bow Centre to learn more about how they made sure local people were at the heart of their evaluation
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We meet Jane Salazar, a pioneer who overcame the numerous challenges of developing a peer support group for people who could not talk.
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Change Please is a social enterprise which is using the nation's love of coffee to reduce the UK's homelessness population.
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Adur and Worthing Councils create a space to chat and connect with other people at a public living room based in a local beach hut
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earn about how we focused on 'story-listening' to help Dudley's Health & Wellbeing Board hear from local residents and shape their future commissioning.
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As part of their Keep it Local campaign, Locality would like to hear from you and understand how the public service landscape is shaping up
Read article“The Hub acts as a glue bringing together people and organisations who are doing so much to positively disrupt their local systems.”
Burcu Borysik, Mayday Trust