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Terrific success was achieved in a terrible year through the “Everyone In” programme – a bright light of collaboration, social action, decisive government and local government leadership.
The next challenge is to sustain and embed that success and not go backwards in 2022 and the decade ahead.
How can we avoid a repeat of the mistakes made after the 2008 financial crash?
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Andy Burnham was elected Mayor of Greater Manchester in May 2017, and was re-elected for a second term in May 2021.
The Mayor joins Greater Manchester’s Combined Authority as its chair and eleventh member. He is also the lead for Policy & Reform and Transport. The Mayor is also supported by Deputy Mayor Beverley Hughes who leads on Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire.
Prior to being Mayor, Andy was MP for Leigh from 2001. In Government, Andy has held Ministerial positions at the Home Office, Department of Health and the Treasury. In 2008 he became Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, before returning to Health as Secretary of State in 2009.
In opposition, Andy has served as Shadow Education Secretary, Shadow Health Secretary and Shadow Home Secretary.
Andy lives in Leigh, Greater Manchester, with his wife and three children. He is a keen supporter of Everton FC.
With Professor Aidan Halligan and Dr Nigel Hewett, Alex helped to found Pathway in 2009 and became its first Chief Executive. In 2016 Pathway was awarded the Kate Granger Award for Compassionate Care. An 18 year career in London Government culminated in five years as a senior advisor to the Mayor of London (between 2004 and 2009). While in the Mayor’s Office he led on both planning and development and then health policy as well as overseeing a wide range of projects: London’s European Social Fund and European Regional Development Funds, leading the East London Green Grid, the development of the UK’s first statutory health inequalities strategy, and overseeing the first major ‘alterations’ to the London Plan, bringing concerns with climate change to the heart of London planning policy. Alex is a member of the Faculty of Public Health, holds a Masters in London Studies and a Degree in History. He is currently chair of the equality campaign group My Fair London and a trustee of The Staff College: Leadership in Healthcare.
Dr Nigel Hewett is a General Practitioner who has worked with homeless people since 1990. In 2000 he set up the full time Leicester Homeless Primary Healthcare Service; this is now Inclusion Healthcare, a community interest company judged “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission. In 2006 he was awarded an OBE for services to homeless people. In 2009 he launched University College London Hospital’s Pathway homeless team. In 2010 he was a founder member of the Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health of the College of Medicine and in 2011 became Medical Director of Pathway – a new Charity formed to improve the health care of homeless people and other excluded groups and support the Faculty. In 2014 he edited the 2nd edition of the Faculty Standards for Inclusion Health, which has been endorsed by the Royal College of Physicians. There are now 10 Pathway hospital care coordination teams from Bradford to Brighton and teams being developed in Bristol and Perth Australia
Leslie Morphy is the new chair of Pathway. Her career has largely been in the not for profit sector including 8 years as CEO of Crisis UK the national charity for homeless people. Prior to that she was a Director of The Prince’s Trust for ten years, held the post of Director of Research and Development at the Basics Skills Agency and was the Director of Broadcasting Support Services – a social enterprise. She is currently Chair of the Board of Governors of Oxford Brookes University and holds non executive directorships for an NHS mental health trust and at a housing association. She has degrees from the London School of Economics and Birkbeck.
Chaired for the Government the Independent Review of Drugs Policy: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/review-of-drugs-phase-two-report
Professor Dame Carol Black is currently Chair of the British Library, the Centre for Ageing Better, and Think Ahead, the Government’s fast-stream training programme for Mental Health Social Workers. She chairs NHS England/Improvement’s Advisory Board on Employee Health and Wellbeing, and is Adviser to NHSI and PHE on Health and Work. She is also a member of RAND Europe’s Council of Advisers, and of the Boards of the Institute for Employment Studies and UKActive. In 2019 she completed a seven-year term as Principal of Newnham College Cambridge, where she was a Deputy Vice-Chancellor. She still sits on the University’s Strategy Board on Student Mental Health and Wellbeing. She is a Patron of the Women’s Leadership Centre in the Judge Business School. Dame Carol has completed four independent reviews for the UK Government: of the health of the working-age population in 2008 as National Director for Health and Work; of sickness absence in Britain in 2011 as co-chair; of employment outcomes of addiction to drugs or alcohol, or obesity, in 2016; and on illicit drugs, demand, supply and treatment (Part I, for the Home Office, published in February 2020; Part 2 for DHSC imminent). Professor Black is a past-President of the Royal College of Physicians, of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, and of the British Lung Foundation, and past-Chair of the Nuffield Trust for health policy. The Centre she established at the Royal Free Hospital in London is internationally renowned for research and treatment of connective tissue diseases such as scleroderma. She has been a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery.
John’s expertise lies in the area of social exclusion and marginalisation, often the result of experiencing chronic cumulative psychosocial trauma. John has helped manage a counselling charity for homeless people, worked as a (French) bi-lingual counsellor at the CNWL Mental Health NHS trust, ‘Forced Migration Trauma Service’, and for the last twelve years has led the CLCH NHS Trust, ‘Homeless Health Counselling Service’ in Westminster. He founded and chairs the Westminster City Council Complex Personality Network and also took on the role of (honorary) Chair for the Camden and Islington Foundation NHS Trust, Recovery College in 2019.
John is a United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) registered Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, and Lacanian Analyst, and has taught at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, as well as at the Middlesex University, Mental Health Department. He is also a Pathway Clinical Fellow.
John has spoken extensively at conferences and authored several chapters and journal articles on, ‘Pre-treatment Therapy’, a trauma informed counselling approach which takes into account a person’s fluctuating ability to make use of counselling, at any one moment. Several NHS psychological services have recently been commissioned to deliver ‘Pre-treatment Therapy’ across the country.
John has also developed a popular ‘Trauma Informed Communications Skills’ training programme and is presently working on a book entitled ‘Stories from the Basement – A Psychotherapist’s Reflections on Caring for Homeless People and the Obstacles to Compassion’.
He also wrote the Introduction: ‘Pretreatment Inclusion’, to Jay Levy’s new book: ‘Pretreatment in Action: Interactive Exploration from Homelessness to Housing Stabilizaton’, which came out last October 2021.
Dr Aaminah Verity is a GP based in Lewisham. She has been researching how the COVID-19 pandemic had affected access to GP services for excluded groups. She is now GP fellow for health inequalities for North Lewisham Primary Care Network and is leading a strategy of co-production and an asset based approach to tackling health inequalities with the local community for her primary care network.
She has spent time working with the charity Doctors of the World both in the UK and abroad, providing healthcare to refugees and developing tools to help improve access to GP surgeries for excluded populations.
Alice Kaye is a final year trainee clinical psychologist at the University of East London. The research presented here forms part of her doctoral thesis due to be assessed in July 2022. Alice has worked across a range of NHS mental health services, both as a Mental Health Social Worker and Trainee Psychologist. Across services, the relationship between housing and mental wellbeing is evident, and was one of the reasons Alice decided to conduct this research.
Caroline is responsible for the delivery and development of the women’s service which provides a one stop shop model for women with multiple and complex health and social care needs, including homelessness, addiction, physical health and mental health. As a registered adult nurse, Caroline has a wealth of experience working within homelessness and addiction which spans over 11 years. Prior to this, Caroline has built a range of knowledge and experience in relation to physical health across various health care settings including prisons, gynaecology, community and treatment room nursing.
Much of her work centres around exploring and evaluating ways to improve access to high quality multidisciplinary and palliative care support for people experiencing homelessness, together with increasing support for frontline homelessness staff. She has produced resources, with a range of experts, to facilitate the development and training of multiagency communities of practice for people working with people experiencing homelessness who have advanced ill health.
Dr Ché Rosebert has spent more than 20 years working within NHS secondary care adult mental health services and in that time has managed various psychology and psychotherapy teams. Ché also works independently as an organisational consultant and is a founding member and Director of External Relations of her professional body, The Association of Clinical Psychologists UK.
Ché investigated the role of clinical psychology for homeless people in 2000, has worked in a GP Practice for the homeless and has worked with Hostel Providers in Tower Hamlets, East London since 2014. With an emphasis on co-production Che’s role is to help hostel staff sustainably implement their psychologically, trauma and neuro informed approaches. A strong believer in psychological wellbeing for all, social inclusion and interdependency, Che’s best work is in connecting people and organisations together and helping others use their voice. It really is all about the relationships.
She was the Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation from 2007 until the end of 2016. Previously, she ran a consultancy business for 15 years and has served at various times as a Charity Commissioner, member of the Board of the Housing Corporation, Chair of the Refugee Council and Deputy Chair of the Food Standards Agency. She was a member of the Council of the University of York and pro Chancellor until 2017.
In 2017 she launched and chaired the Independent Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in England, which reported in November 2018, and held a fellowship with Carnegie UK Trust 2017/18 considering the role of kindness in public policy.
She has written and spoken extensively on issues relating to philanthropy, governance, the voluntary sector and its relationship with government. Her publications include ‘Why Fight Poverty?’, ‘Kindness, Emotions and Relationships’, the ‘Blind Spot in Public Policy Making’ and ‘The Grant Making Tango’.
She is currently a non-executive director of the Mears Group PLC, of Yorkshire Water and is the Inaugural Chair of the Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence based at Edinburgh University.
In 2010 Dame Julia was awarded the Outstanding Leadership Award in the Charity Awards and has received honorary doctorates from three universities. In the 2020 New Year Honours she received a DBE. For more information about Julia please visit her website: www.juliaunwin.com
Bruce is in the beginning of his medical training, having completed his Foundation Years in the Severn Deanery, he is now working in Darwin, Australia.
His interests lie in Sexual Health and Global Health.
His work involved designing and implementing an assessment tool for homeless patients on admission to hospital.
After gaining an MD from Cambridge University, Dr Goddard trained in Nottingham and was appointed as a consultant physician and gastroenterologist in Derby in 2001. His main clinical and research interests are bowel cancer screening, H. pylori, iron deficiency anaemia and inflammatory bowel disease. He is chair of the British Society of Gastroenterology gastroduodenal section.
He was director of the RCP’s Medical Workforce Unit for 5 years until being appointed RCP registrar in 2014. In this role, he oversaw professional and clinical affairs, both in the UK and internationally. His main policy areas were workforce, healthcare funding, the future of general medicine, the medical registrar and ‘keeping medicine brilliant’. In 2018 he was elected the 121st RCP president, the youngest for 400 years and first from the East Midlands.
His priorities as president are the three Ws: workforce, wellbeing and worldwide. He continues in clinical practice including being on call at weekends, as well as continuing in clinical research.
Dr Goddard is married with two children.
In 2021 he set up an innovative trial involving psychologists, and game designers to see if ‘Game Therapy’, (an evidence-based approach to managing complex psychological trauma in military veterans and prison populations in the USA) might have a place in the management of trauma in a UK homeless population in London. He is also involved in similar trials across the UK in both the homeless population and also military veterans organised by the charity www.game-therapy.co.uk
Prior to working with patients experiencing homelessness he served 14 years as doctor with the British Army.
MBChB BSc(hons) DCH MRCGP
Lawson Road Surgery, Lawson Road, Norwich NR3 4LE
As part of my current role, I offer reflective practice and consultation to complex needs homeless hostels teams in Tower Hamlets, helping teams to embed principles of Psychologically-Informed Environments and Trauma-Informed Care. I am also part of a ‘Triple Aims for Homelessness Project’, which aims to improve the health and wellbeing of homeless people living in complex needs hostels.
I have a particular interest in working with acquired brain injuries as these often go unrecognised in the homeless population, but can have a significant impact on peoples’ daily life and relationships. I have therefore recently set up a pilot brain injury screening and assessment service in one hostel in the borough.
Nick trained at the University of Southampton in the UK, specialising in treatment and research with people with severe and enduring mental health problems.
He worked for a number of years in an NHS community mental health team, before moving on to develop a psychology service for entrenched rough sleepers in partnership with local homelessness charities. This led to clinical and research interests in psychological approaches to the complex issues experienced by people who are marginalised from mainstream health and social care.
He continues to research and teach at the University of Southampton around leadership in clinical psychology and psychologically informed environments in homelessness and is a founding director of a not-for-profit social enterprise delivering psychological interventions for homeless people and the people who serve them. He gives lectures and workshops on leadership and wellbeing in the workplace, focussing on the relationship between individual and environmental factors.
Dr Hardy-Johnson is Research Fellow in both adolescent health and wellbeing and maternal and child health. Additional roles within her current position includes NIHR Training Lead for a global health project and Module Lead for two modules in the Faculty of Medicine, at both post-graduate and undergraduate levels.
Since having children she has worked as an advanced nurse practitioner (ANP) in general practice. She pioneered the first enhanced service for homeless patients in the County Borough of Caerphilly in September 2020 from her Oakfield Street Surgery. She has attained an MSc in Advanced clinical Practice and a PhD in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Dr Sandra Hartley’s expertise is in the health and well–being arena with a particular interest in long-term conditions, active and healthy ageing, public health and physical activity promotion. Sandra is an advocate for community engagement and the optimisation of community environments to support population health and well-being. She has a passion for championing transformation and positive change within the physiotherapy profession as well as the development of innovative models of healthcare. Sandra has undertaken collaborative research with voluntary and social enterprises that support older adults and people with long-term physical and mental health conditions to live fulfilling and meaningful lives in their community. She has also worked with the local government to promote community physical activity groups.
Emma assists clinicians and families with non-clinical issues which can pose barriers to discharge, such as providing advice and support with exploring financial options such as maximising income, obtaining charitable support, and with navigating housing solutions.
Emma studied Philosophy at University, and during this time her interest in social policy led her to volunteer at the Royal Court of Justice Advice Bureau and Islington Citizens Advice. As part of this voluntary role, Emma worked in an outreach advice project at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court. It was here that Emma saw the value of advice workers becoming specialists, not just in areas of advice such as ‘housing’ or ‘benefits’, but in working with specific vulnerable client groups. Following this Emma moved on to focus on providing advice to older people and adults with complex care needs at Age UK & Westminster City Council, before joining the Central Children’s Long-Term Ventilation Service 5 years ago.
Research interests include homelessness with specific attention to peer support and women’s experiences of homelessness.
Gill has 18 years experience working in operational and strategic roles within homelessness and specialises in practice improvement, partnership development and integrated commissioning. In 2019, Gill authored an approach to reviewing the deaths of people affected by homelessness which has been adopted as best practice by the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government and the Local Government Association in the UK. She has contributed to a number of articles and a book on the subjects of homelessness, health and safeguarding and is committed to using her lived and professional experience to tackle the systemic inequalities which result in multiple exclusion and disadvantage.
Jay is currently employed by Eliot CHS-Homeless Services as a Regional Manager for Western MA SAMHSA-PATH Homeless Outreach Teams. He has achieved formal recognition from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Mental Health for his ongoing efforts to help under-served homeless individuals through his direct service, clinical supervision of staff, and program development. As an adjunct teacher at Anna Maria College, he taught a unique graduate psychology course on Outreach Counseling, which integrated Pretreatment and PIE perspectives with the clinical challenges of homeless services work. Jay received his MSW degree in clinical social work from Columbia University in 1988.
Further Information at http://www.jayslevy.com/
Joanne Bernhaut is a Consultant in Public Health at East Sussex County Council. Joanne leads the Healthy Communities and Places team. This includes Housing and Homelessness, Getting Health into Place (the Built and Natural Environment) and Asset Based Community Development. Joanne is the Educational Supervisor for East Sussex and the lead for Public Health Workforce.
Joanne is the lead author for the East Sussex Director of Public Health report 2019/20 Health and Housing JSNA – Annual Public Health Reports (eastsussexjsna.org.uk).
During the pandemic, as well as supporting the local Public Health Covid function, Joanne has worked closely with the borough and district Housing teams and the local Rough Sleeper Initiative to jointly design new programmes of work to support people who had been rough sleepers as well as those living in temporary accommodation and those at risk of being homeless. This includes embedding a trauma informed approach, working closely with the local skills provider to develop new training including a bespoke horticulture course and supported apprentices, an arts and creativity programme, support to access dentistry via Dentaid as well as Sexual Health services, a bespoke service to encourage engagement with all services (via mental health activities leads) and procurement of a mobile health unit.
Joanne was the first multidisciplinary Public Health Trainee for Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. Prior to the Public Health Training scheme Joanne worked in Healthcare Research, Clinical Governance and Evaluation.
Joanne has an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and BSc Health Science from Leeds Metropolitan University. Joanne started her career as a Cardiographer at Leeds General Infirmary in 1996, which inspired her commitment to work in Public Health to improve population health and wellbeing and to reduce inequalities.
Over the last twenty-seven years, Kate has worked in various roles, including keyworker, team and service manager in numerous community alcohol and drug settings across the NW of England and worked as a Deputy Regional Manager with the National Treatment Agency (now part of Public Health England) between 2004 and 2006.
She returned operational service delivery at Greater Manchester Mental Health Trust in 2007 and is the Head of Operations for the Addictions & Homeless Services, which includes large parts of GM and a 36 bedded inpatient detox unit on the Prestwich Hospital site.
Kate has contributed to publications such as the UKDPC Recovery Consensus Statement and Medications in Recovery. She is a Specialist Advisor with the CQC.
Louise believes that every person has the right to effective and responsive healthcare. This is not always available to members of all communities. Louise feels that as health care professionals we need to reach out and gain trust, have integrity and have open and honest relationships with clients in both hospital and community settings to enable people to have better health outcomes. Louise uses innovative and strengths-based approaches to engage people with a caseload of people who have all experienced trauma and adverse childhood experiences.
Louise lives in Leeds is married and enjoys being raised by 2, soon to be 3, grandchildren. She has a passion for inclusion and has enjoyed and been privileged to be an independent visitor for a child that is looked after for 10 years
I relish guiding nurses towards bringing their unique practice stories to light to show the profound needs within homelessness. I trust that you will be inspired by our four individual stories in this reflective practice workshop today.
In addition, in providing expert opinion in regard to the interface between Adult Social Care and Housing has enabled the coalesce of differing powers and duties to meet individual need. Promoting effective partnership working between agencies and services to respond to the complex needs presented by homeless individuals; and creative approaches to direct work with people living on the streets or in hostel accommodation can be experienced as a challenging interface. However, my role has been able to sustain some alignment across a whole system, promoting an integrated way to support effective practice
My value base is grounded value base. I have a genuine interest in the Human Story, and I believe this is portrayed through my ability be empathic, inquisitive, open minded and as flexible as possible, I practice with a positive regard, which aims to redress the power imbalances which exist within practice. I am aware of the importance of challenging discrimination which is a historic and a present feature experenced by many individuals.
Michelle is a researcher in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, where her work involves health inequalities and systems change. She currently focuses on the Co-PACT study, which uses Photovoice as a policy-research tool that foregrounds service users’ lived experiences of being detained under the Mental Health Act in the UK to inform experience-based co-design workshops alongside staff and policymakers in seven NHS trusts to reduce ethnic inequalities via policy reform. She is also working alongside Dr. Rafi Roganswatson, Dr. Caroline Schulman, and Dr. Briony Hudson on work related to homelessness and frailty, as well as access to palliative care for unsettled migrants in the UK.
She completed her MPhil in Medical Anthropology at the University of Oxford, as well as the MSc in Medicine, Health and Public Policy course from King’s College London and the Bachelor of Health Sciences (Hons) program at McMaster University in Canada. Her research background has been predominantly qualitative in nature but varied in content, from dementia in long-term care to biological weapons non-proliferation policy.
He has been free from drugs for around 18 months currently and is determined to stay that way. He has a good network of support around him but he also values his ability to connect with others who are struggling but open to change.
Pete’s input has often been utilised by local organisations as he has the ability as well as the credibility to engage with others in an uncompromising manner, which is understood and appreciated by professionals and service users alike.
Over 16 years’ experience of working within the voluntary sector in housing, homelessness and supporting vulnerable people. Responsible for the implementation of becoming Psychologically Informed Environment at Falcon Support Services.
Rachel is a social researcher with over 15 years’ experience in the public and voluntary sectors. She joined CFE Research in 2012 and has worked on a range of research and evaluation projects, many relating to addressing different forms of disadvantage and social exclusion. Rachel directs the national evaluation of the National Lottery Community Fund’s Fulfilling Lives programme – an eight-year investment of £118million in improving support for people affected by homelessness, offending, mental ill-health and substance misuse.
CFE Research is an independent, not-for-profit social research company, providing research and evaluation services to government departments, public sector agencies, educational providers and community and voluntary organisations. CFE’s work ranges across the fields of education, the economy and wellbeing.
www.fulfillinglives.org
Inclusion Healthcare is a community interest company running GP practices for people who are homeless and asylum seekers within Leicester City. We also provide GP services to other marginalised groups in the city, such as the prison population.
Since her career in medicine started Sarah has had an interest in providing healthcare to patients who may struggle to access mainstream care and working with local and national partners to address and reduce health inequalities faced by some of the most disadvantaged in society. In her spare time she loves eating good food and city breaks.
With more than 20 years experience as a “deep end” GP, he has a strong track record for service re-design and quality improvement. As a passionate believer in technology-led innovation he has helped pioneer the Bevan version of national charity Groundswell’s peer advocacy model. Recognising the potential of service users with relevant lived-experience to volunteer and train as Digital Health Champions is beginning to turn around the lives of the volunteers and improve the help-seeking behaviour of service users.
Over the last 18 years, Adam has worked clinically across a range of services within Nottinghamshire and Greater Manchester, including adult mental health community rehabilitation, adolescent inpatient services, forensic services and community health and justice.
He progressed to team and operational management and has led on service delivery across community health and justice, leading on the delivery of the mental health police interface service in Trafford. In addition, he has worked as the operational manager for Trafford’s adult community mental health services. Currently, Adam is the Operational Manager for Greater Manchester Mental Health’s Homeless Services across the Greater Manchester region.
Sam is a registered Mental Health Nurse and joined the STOT project in April 2021. Prior to this Sam worked as a Charge Nurse on the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit in Leeds, a service he joined when he qualified from the University of Leeds in 2017. He is a passionate advocate for health equality and trauma informed service provision.
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, UCL
Research Fellow, Pathway
Briony is the Senior Research Manager at Marie Curie. Her background is in health psychology, and she is an honorary senior research fellow at the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department at UCL and a research fellow for Pathway. Her research explores access to palliative care for people experiencing homelessness. Briony is currently developing a programme of online learning aimed at multi-professional groups to promote a collaborative, person-centred approach to palliative care for people experiencing homelessness. Briony also leads the knowledge translation work at Marie Curie.
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