Innovation Exchange celebrated the first anniversary of its Next Practice programme in London last Wednesday. 13 of our Next Practice projects came from far and wide – with big shouts of gratitude to our friends from Liverpool, Huddersfield, Bristol and beyond - to share stories of their development and future ambitions. Projects were joined by a great collection of guests, including Innovation Exchange stakeholders, senior policy leads from DCSF [...]

Innovation Exchange was in Bath and Bristol yesterday with Clean Slate Training and Employment, one of our Next Practice projects. 
We attended a workshop on meeting the challenges of worklessness hosted by Clean Slate’s energetic director/founder Jeff Mitchell and Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) council. The workshop brought together key stakeholders for the launch of and [...]

[ November 26, 2009; ] “We need to work together with passion and commitment to help everyone lead fulfilling, independent lives. This is an important event for the JIP in helping us to find high-potential innovation projects that are making personalisation a reality”.
Eric Robinson, Lead on Personalisation, ADASS and Corporate Director of Social Care and Health, Staffordshire County Council

Personalisation [...]

[ November 12, 2009; ] “We need to work together with passion and commitment to help everyone lead fulfilling, independent lives.”
Paul Hanson, Chair of the North East Joint Improvement Partnership

Innovation Exchange is working with the North East Joint Improvement Partnership to seek out and support some of the innovation projects that can help to personalise social care and generate new [...]

[ November 4, 2009; ] Innovation Exchange’s Next Practice programme is supporting 15 of the country’s most outstanding third sector innovation projects in the areas of independent living and supporting excluded young people selected from a competitive field of around 200 applicants.
A year ago in November, many of us gathered at Amnesty International in London for the launch of [...]