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The following is the text of an opening speech given by Mark Brown to Big Lottery’s Fulfilling Lives event at Printworks, Sheffield on 21st November 2017
I’ve been given the job of framing some of the conversations today about the future of supporting people with multiple and complex needs. I’m aware of what a responsibility that is, and how easy it is to let such discussions trail off into platitudes and buzzwords.
Journalist Sarah O’Conner published a long piece in the Financial Times this weekend looking at the multiple overlapping problems that people face living in Blackpool, where a combination of economic, historic, social and cultural factors all combine to make life harder and harder for people for whom life was already hard. She referenced a phrase sometimes used by GPs: ‘Shit life syndrome’: the situation where someone has so many things not working out for them that even beginning to change anything is oft
Social Spider CIC | Helping people to make change happen
Ben Hannigan's blog – mental health, nursing, policy, services, people, research, education