Changing Futures Northumbria

It should be easy and straightforward for people experiencing multiple and complex disadvantages to get the support they need. Currently, it is not. Currently, it is incredibly hard and, in many cases, impossible. Many in our partnership have been working separately for years to tackle these massive challenges. Changing Futures provided an opportunity for us to join forces and imagine what tackling this at a regional level with national support could look like. We work differentlyChanging Futures Northumbria is one of 15 Changing Futures projects across the country. Funded by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) and the National Lottery, we are a partnership of six local authorities, the Police and Crime Commissioner's Office, local NHS trusts, and a variety of voluntary sector organisations. We think of the current system of support services as a maze, where it is very hard to find your way through and many people get lost inside it. Our work in Changing Futures Northumbria is not to help people to navigate the maze, but to show plainly where all the walls of the maze are and then start to knock them down. Our liberated approach frees our colleagues to use their considerable skills and expertise to deliver the best possible support, all driven by each individual's unique conception of ‘what matters to me'. In doing this, we are step-by-step developing a picture of what would work better than getting people to negotiate the current labyrinth of options in finding the solutions that work for them. To aid the work, we have appointed a team of dedicated learning leads whose role it is to embed themselves in the process, identify the key issues, gather evidence, and build relationships with vital stakeholders to begin to drive the work of making systemic changes.
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Employee Count: 9
Keywords: hospital & health care