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27 Jun

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Personal Health Budgets / NHS England [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='#ffffff' thickness='10' up='' down=''] Brief: Personal health budgets are being introduced by the NHS to help people with long-term conditions or disabilities manage their care in a way that suits them. Traditionally, local authorities determined what form of care a person received,...

27 Jun

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Assessing the impact of a 'Family Innovation Fund' programme / Essex County Council [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='#ffffff' thickness='10' up='' down=''] Brief: Essex County Council’s new ‘Family Innovation Fund’ programme aims to help families and individuals in volatile situations build resilience, and reduce their reliance on statutory support. The programme...

27 Jun

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Residential home 'co-production' programme / Leonard Cheshire [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='#ffffff' thickness='10' up='' down=''] Brief: Leonard Cheshire runs residential homes across the UK for people with disabilities. Through a 'human-centred co-production' approach, their 'Future Choices' programme aimed to increase residents' choice and control, and so improve the standard of...

27 Jun

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Assessing the impact of a 'Cultural Citizens Programme' / Arts Council England [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='#ffffff' thickness='10' up='' down=''] Brief: Last year the Arts Council funded a ‘Cultural Citizens Programme’ to promote arts and culture to young people who would not normally have access or an interest. The...

03 Dec

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Assessing the impact of a family innovation fund / Essex County Council [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='#ffffff' thickness='10' up='' down=''] Brief: Essex County Council launched a ‘Family Innovation Fund’ Early Help programme to help families in volatile situations build resilience, and reduce their reliance on statutory support in the future....

03 Dec

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Assessing the impact of a 'Cultural Citizens Programme' / Arts Council England [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='#ffffff' thickness='10' up='' down=''] Brief: Last year the Arts Council funded a ‘Cultural Citizens Programme’ to promote arts and culture to young people who would not normally have access or an interest. The...

26 Nov

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Evaluating a residential home co-production / Leonard Cheshire [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='#ffffff' thickness='10' up='' down=''] Brief: Leonard Cheshire runs residential homes across the UK for people with disabilities. Through a 'co-production' approach, their 'Future Choices' programme aimed to increase residents' choice and control, and so improve the standard of...

26 Nov

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An insight into the lives of the 'working poor' / National Consumer Council [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='#ffffff' thickness='10' up='' down=''] Brief: Five million working adults without children earn less than £18,500 a year. As such, our client wanted to explore: what socio-economic barriers are faced by full-time, low-income workers? And...

10 Nov

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Personal Health Budgets / NHS England [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='#ffffff' thickness='10' up='' down=''] Brief: Personal health budgets are being introduced by the NHS to help people with long-term conditions or disabilities manage their care in a way that suits them. Traditionally, local authorities determined what form of care a person received,...

10 Nov

Posted at 15:53h in

Being an agency or contract worker / REC [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='#ffffff' thickness='10' up='' down=''] Brief: We were commissioned by the Recruitment & Employment Confederation, to find out: why do some people choose to be freelance, contract or agency workers? And what are their resulting experiences? [vc_separator type='transparent' position='center' color='#ffffff'...