by David Robinson | 10 Aug 2020 | Communities & Volunteering, Covid and Relationships, Our thinking
Are there clues in the pandemic experience for the development of more community based, relationship centred social care? What would need to change and what support would it require? Here, David considers the implications, and the potential, for transforming the approach to social care.
by Tony Clements | 6 Jul 2020 | Communities & Volunteering, Covid and Relationships, Our thinking, Relational Councils
In brief In our report ‘The Moment We Noticed: Learning from 100 days of lockdown’, we invite you to join us in exploring how we might sustain the positives from the pandemic. This paper forms the backbone of our fourth invitation: to join us in developing...
by David Robinson | 19 May 2020 | Covid and Relationships, Dreams and Vision, Our thinking
In brief In this short blog, David takes stock of what we’ve learnt from The Relationships Observatory and offers a positive reflection on what we take forward as we rebuild. This blog has also been published as part of Compass’s #BuildBackBetter...
by David Robinson | 31 Mar 2020 | Convenings, Covid and Relationships, Our thinking
In brief In this blog we lay out our plans for The Relationships Observatory and invite you to share relationship-centred responses to COVID-19 and its challenges. Our plan In my last two blogs I talked about how we can learn from the crisis and embed effective and...
by David Robinson | 19 Mar 2020 | Covid and Relationships, Dreams and Vision, Our thinking
In brief In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, David asks the question: What do we need to do now to be able to look back on 2020 as the year when we not only helped one another in a crisis but as the year when we changed for good? What do we need to do now...
by David Robinson | 13 Mar 2020 | Covid and Relationships, Our thinking
In brief As social behaviour is disrupted by the Coronavirus, David Robinson says that disruption is neither good nor bad. What matters is what we make of it. I spoke last night to a church minister who had already cancelled the Older Peoples Wednesday group and was...
