Towards the end of last year, a group of DH staff spent a day connecting at Evolve Housing + Support. Find out more about the day through the eyes of Harriette Cradock……. Having only ever been to Croydon once before, …
Lara Sonola and Shamim Rahman, members of DH System Oversight, Planning and Legislation team, recently completed a connecting placement at East London NHS Foundation Trust. Lara and Shamim have kindly shared their experience here. During our two day visit, I …
Anne Hackett, from the Social Care Oversight team recently visited London Borough of Barking and Dagenham on a Connecting placement. Anne has kindly shared her experience and offered some general pointers to consider for those in DH who are looking …
Emily Antcliffe, Deputy Director in Mental Health Policy recently completed a visit with a homeless and mental health service in Sydney. Emily has kindly shared her experience here. It’s 6.30am on a damp summer’s morning, and the inhabitants of 25 …
Richard Tromans, policy manager in the efficiency team, talks about his recent connecting experience with London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council (LBBD). The local authority has a number of challenges with rapidly changing demographics and high deprivation.
A few months ago, two of our Connecting partners came along to one of our DG updates and spoke about their experiences of being part of the Connecting programme. One of the issues raised was that Connecting is usually arranged with one …
As the mother of young children, I spend a lot more time thinking about supporting people at the beginning of their lives than towards the end of their lives. But my daughters are statistically likely to live to be a …