Director, IMPOWER
Over the last couple of months colleagues and I have been conducting a number of interviews with Directors of Adults…
Earlier this month, the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services published there budget survey for 2015. As usual Ray…
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…
One Council we are working with has some particularly exciting and bold plans to integrate health and care. In addition…
It’s great that our Fostering Futures report has started a debate. We always write with this in mind and as…
Today we’ve launched our latest report, Fostering Futures. It offers up a new way of thinking about fostering services and how we…
This article originally appeared in The MJ If we’re being honest the Better Care Fund hit a bump in the…
Last year we pushed social care directors and health professionals to heed the warning offered by our Home Truths report…
Fostering or adopting a child is a hugely compassionate act. Not only do you enrich the life of that child…
Children’s minister Edward Timpson has written to all local authorities urging them to meet new targets for speeding up adoptions…
As is always the case with major government financial statements the real value is in capturing the momentum of the…
You’ve heard it before, we’ve heard it before, every government says they are going to cut consultancy spend. Well, we…
How can councils encourage more foster carers and adoptive parents? Research shows 9,000 new fostering families are needed over the…
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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