Improving service delivery is important. We believe that whenever possible, it should be co-designed with practitioners and users – just as the model for integrated care in Islington is being. To realise the full potential of improvements to services, it is crucial that people delivering and using it understand and feel comfortable with the changes. That’s why The Young... Find out more
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Ideas, as well as people, now move more freely. We have put new models, drawn from other classes and other parts of the world, before the local people, creating new aspirations and new ideas.Michael Young and Peter Willmott.
Family and Kinship in East London, 1957
Stopping to think about stop and search
Yesterday, Teresa May announced it’s time to “get stop and search right”. The public is to be consulted as part of a national review on stop and search powers. This news is hugely welcome. Over recent years relations between the police and some communities have declined. The topic doesn’t stay out of the headlines for... Find out more
AMPLIFY: local activism in a digital world
How do you get the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to live on £53 per week? How do you get the first non-white President elected to the highest office in the Western world? And how do you get 1.6 billion people to watch a lesser known K-Pop star prance about on an imaginary... Find out more
Let’s talk about stop and search
Since the riots of Summer 2011, stop and search and poor relations between young people and the police in Tottenham have been prominent in the news. However, too often young people’s voices are missing from these debates, finding themselves spoken about, rather than to. In response, the Young Foundation was commissioned by a Tottenham-based college... Find out more
Finding a home to rent in Hackney: hypothetical housing benefits turn out to be just that
Usually we’re not encouraged to go trawling property websites during working hours, yet last Friday three Citizens Advice volunteers, one Young Foundation intern and I were doing just this and hunting for flats in Hackney. We were each in receipt of a hypothetical Local Housing Allowance (LHA) and aiming to better understand the private rental... Find out more