User-led service design in Local Authorities
A project with Esmee Fairbairn in Lewisham, Knowsley and Bristol
We're working with three local authorities: Lewisham, Knowsley and Bristol, to work out how change happens in local authorities.
"parents"
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- Troubled children pay the price for care home deficiency Closing care-homes is separating children from their families. Physical separation becomes an emotional one and breeds a sense of isolation, and lonliness from : tomrichardson 9th February 2007
- Parents ‘hold key to child literacy’ - Johnson urges families to read - Kit for schools to help literacy Parents, not schools, are the key to improving children’s literacy, Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, has said. from : tomrichardson 12th February 2007
- Open the gates and free people from Britain's ghettos | Communities | SocietyGuardian.c Article about the need to understand the effect that living in ghetto-like housing estates can have on the mind. There is a very good critique of the arguments in the second comment (possibly better than Hutton's article). from : tomrichardson 19th February 2007
- Making fathers of them A new scheme is helping young dads to engage with their children and learn how to look after them. Jerome Monahan reports from : tomrichardson 24th April 2007
- Family matters | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk Everyone agrees that resilient families are the foundation for stable and peaceful communities. They are the bedrock of a strong economy and a sustainable environment. A child's education depends more on what's going on in their family than what's going on at school. For older people, the family is the frontline of their care. from : tomrichardson 25th April 2007
- Parents look for multi-skilled supernanny | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk According to a survey by one recruitment website, ambitious parents tied up with their own careers are looking for university-educated "supernannies" who can help their offspring with everything from learning a second language to practising the viola, while simultaneously rustling up healthy menus and tending to any medical needs. from : tomrichardson 15th May 2007