The week before last, Big Issue had a staff day full of workshops about where our work is taking us and the problems we face. It is still a weekly publication that is distributed to people in need, covering the homeless, ex-homeless and the vulnerably acc... See more
Some years ago I started talking about Overnight I broke social intervention down into four categories: Did she want to prevent need from happening? Did she want to respond to people with an emergency of needing? Or did she want to hold people's hand, so ... See more
We were therefore astonished to find not only that John Healey and housing secretary Angela Rayner also turned up. News of this was embargoed until Burnham's major conference speech the next day, on the basis that he would make reference to the wonderful ... See more
Last weekend showed the World Cup at its finest. England 6-4 France was the best of best games. As a friend of mine said, why don’t we have a prize for the ‘best game’, not just the best player or team? Certainly the France-England game would have won suc... See more
One of the most frightening diminutions of the UK as a caring society was the closure of the mental asylums, often on the edge of towns, in the 1980s. Replaced laughingly by what was called ‘Care in the Community’. The fact that care in the community, rat... See more
