Great blog on colleges as anchor institutions, behaving more like social enterprises from London SE Colleges Louise Dr Sam Parrett CBE Commission on the College of the Future feweek.co.uk/to-become-anch…

Join our Vice President greg fell FFPH at The King's Fund Annual Conference in November to explore how #COVID19 has exposed the harm caused by deprivation & the effect commercial determinants have on #PublicHealth. #KFAnnual2022 #CDOH Sheffield City Council kingsfund.org.uk/events/the-kin…

📅 Our next Introduction to community wealth building workshop is approaching fast. To learn more about how you can implement a community wealth building strategy, register for your place now! 👉ow.ly/JUVm50K9JcU

📢 It's back 😀 #CWBSummit is THE event for local/devolved govt peeps, anchor institutions, social economy and civil soc folk who want to explore how to unlock solutions to the most pressing challenges experienced in places. 🔗ow.ly/vm1X50KEbE9

Almost half of children in a family with an under 5 in the North East of England are in poverty, the highest of any UK nation and region. A thread of findings from the North East Child Poverty Commission report published today. 🧵⬇️

"More people in Britain died due to austerity in the five years before the pandemic, than died from COVID-19 in the first three years of the pandemic. The effects of austerity continued after the pandemic hit, but initially became harder to discern." bit.ly/3Elpz9s

This chart shows why this has happened and will continue to happen, unless the government reforms Council Tax and the local government finance system more widely.

How to reclaim your life (by decluttering it). The Simplicity Audit:

Hey Twitter, We're crowd-sourcing examples of local Health and Wellbeing Hubs. Innovative use of community assets. One-stop shops for health and wellbeing. Partnerships between the council and external partners or collaboration within the council. Anywhere we should visit?

"The north would need its own version of the Barnett formula" 👏👏👏 Andy Burnham 👉ow.ly/7Jkb50MzPJG And how do we do it? 👇ow.ly/EZ4h50MzPMf #CotN23 #ConventionoftheNorth

Great to hear Edna Robinson nazir afzal from The People's Powerhouse taking about the need to focus on people as active participants but crucially - the need to prioritise childrens’lives Reinforces the findings of NHSA #childofthenorth report this week. #Conventionofthenorth

So much careful work went into the creation of this 90sec animation with Prof Eamon McCrory advising on every aspect so the science is totally accurate and clear. Every moment so precise and carries the message that what surrounds us, shapes us #ShapingUs

If you're curious about the conceptual connections between the Doughnut, the Thriving Places Index, Seed Model, the SDGs and more. . . this #WellbeingEconomy report is just for you - really valuable work by Centre for Thriving Places (inactive) Carnegie UK centreforthrivingplaces.org/wp-content/upl…

Delighted to have been part of this work. The findings are exciting but not surprising – local governments are active participants in local economies and we see councils and their partners using their assets and influence to support communities in all our work.

Exciting to see this new (CLES) Centre for Local Economic Strategies report launched tomorrow on how health and social care can build and anchor community wealth - great into below from Tom Lloyd Goodwin 👇

Our ‘Healthy Places’ paper has now launched! Many challenges that the NHS are facing are related to place-based social deteminents of health. However, ICSs may be able to change this by helping institutions influence social and economic health. Read now: bit.ly/420p6BJ

Developing fair for all local economies is a challenging task. But every day we speak to the councils and partners who are not only making difficult decisions but also pioneering innovative practice. Our new paper captures their experience. buff.ly/3sJIBmI 🧵 (1/5)

"Both citizens & public servants deserve a cross-cutting & cross-party consensus about the future direction of public services, not more piecemeal reforms and sticking plasters." Collaborate collaboratecic.com/insights-and-r…

I created a deck of 35 of the graphics that I tweeted during 2023. These are the graphics linked to the tweets that others liked and retweeted the most. The graphics are mostly created by other people and I have acknowledged the source of each one. Thank you to all the brilliant

Delighted to share that our NHS Board Leadership Survey for #EDI & #tacklinghealthinequalities is live. Link: forms.gle/3XDye1sp3Ph1n4… Pls do complete it & share with colleagues too. Centre for Population Health NHS Providers Seacole Group APNA NHS - Asian Professionals National Alliance Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex roger kline NHS Confederation & more