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Jeremy Cooper

Director, IMPOWER

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New HSCIC data, new insights: Come and join us

New HSCIC data, new insights: Come and join us

Over the last couple of months colleagues and I have been conducting a number of interviews with Directors of Adults…

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ADASS budget survey points to a needed revolution

ADASS budget survey points to a needed revolution

Earlier this month, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services published there budget survey for 2015. As usual Ray…

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Can Lord Carter’s £5bn worth of ‘simple steps’ point us to a bigger prize?

Can Lord Carter’s £5bn worth of ‘simple…

I couldn’t help but read the reports of Lord Carter’s study of efficiency in the NHS (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/productivity-in-nhs-hospitals) without getting somewhat…

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Silo Thinking on The Increase in Adult Social Care

Silo Thinking on The Increase in Adult Social Care

One Council we are working with has some particularly exciting and bold plans to integrate health and care. In addition…

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A Response: Fostering Futures and The Debate It Has Created

A Response: Fostering Futures and The Debate It Has Created

It’s great that our Fostering Futures report has started a debate. We always write with this in mind and as…

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Fostering Futures Launched Today

Fostering Futures Launched Today

Today we’ve launched our latest report, Fostering Futures. It offers up a new way of thinking about fostering services and how we…

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Is the ‘Better Care Fund’ doomed?

Is the ‘Better Care Fund’ doomed?

This article originally appeared in The MJ If we’re being honest the Better Care Fund hit a bump in the…

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Jeremy Cooper in Community Care on GP – Social Worker Relationships and Care Integration

Jeremy Cooper in Community Care on GP – Social Worker…

Last year we pushed social care directors and health professionals to heed the warning offered by our Home Truths report…

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The Family Values Programme

The Family Values Programme

Fostering or adopting a child is a hugely compassionate act. Not only do you enrich the life of that child…

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Jeremy Cooper in response to adoption score cards

Jeremy Cooper in response to adoption score cards

Children’s minister Edward Timpson has written to all local authorities urging them to meet new targets for speeding up adoptions…

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IMPOWER’s Jeremy Cooper responds to the Autumn Statement in The MJ

IMPOWER’s Jeremy Cooper responds to the Autumn…

As is always the case with major government financial statements the real value is in capturing the momentum of the…

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Slashing Consultancy Spend – Why are these turkeys voting for Christmas?

Slashing Consultancy Spend – Why are these turkeys…

You’ve heard it before, we’ve heard it before, every government says they are going to cut consultancy spend. Well, we…

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Could customer insight transform adoption and fostering?

Could customer insight transform adoption and fostering?

How can councils encourage more foster carers and adoptive parents? Research shows 9,000 new fostering families are needed over the…

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Home Truths update

Home Truths update

Over the last 6 months IMPOWER’s Home Truths have worked with a range of councils and CCGs. There are currently…

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