How the 2025 spending review could affect community services
How the UK Government spending review could affect the commissioning and delivery of community support services including housing, mental health, free school meals and more.
Breaking Barriers in Disability Rights
With the UK government reaffirming its pledge to champion the rights of disabled people at the UN this week, this article unpacks the latest developments in disability inclusion and physical health. It examines new policy measures, including the Equality, Race and Disability Bill, and discusses how these changes aim to improve access, opportunity, and wellbeing for people with disabilities. The piece also looks at the importance of accessible physical activity, drawing on recent WHO guidelines and community initiatives that empower disabled people to lead healthier, more connected lives
Glaziers and window breakers – tension in the NHS
‘Glaziers and Window Breakers: Former health secretaries in their own words‘ is a report by the Health Foundation, published in October 2020, in which former Secretaries of State for Health reflect on how their roles oscillated between being ‘window breakers’ – driven to disrupt and reform – and ‘glaziers,’ who mend, steady and consolidate once […]