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New £1m ‘Recovery Central’ will make Birmingham the recovery capital of the UK

April 26, 2016
by Alun Severn
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  Changes UK, a charity and community interest company founded less than ten years ago, is well on the way to realising its ambitious vision of making Birmingham the capital for recovery from addiction. Changes UK has successfully developed and secured Public Health England fundi
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‘The freedom of freelancing, the muscle of mutuality’

April 25, 2016
by Alun Severn
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The number of self-employed people in the UK has risen to nearly five million, the highest level since records began, their ranks being swelled by people trying to avoid unemployment, those who have been made redundant, and especially public sector workers — such as music teache
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Youth Promise Plus information event announced

April 21, 2016
by Alun Severn
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Birmingham City Council has just announced that there will be a Youth promise Plus information event at the Fusion Centre (South and City College Birmingham) on Thursday 28th April 2016, with two briefing sessions being held — one at 11.00am and one at 2.00pm. Valued at £50.4m o
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Ageing Better in Birmingham fund opens for applications

April 20, 2016
by Alun Severn
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Ageing Better in Birmingham is the BVSC-led cross sector partnership which has been successful in securing an investment of £6m from the Big Lottery Fund to help reduce social isolation of older people. It has just announced that its Ageing Better Fund is now officially open. The fund
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NHS outsourcing and mutuals in crisis?

April 13, 2016
by Alun Severn
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An independent enquiry into the collapse of the largest single integrated health outsourcing contract so far let by the NHS has just been published. The contract, worth £725m over five years, was intended to integrate community care for over 18 year olds, acute emergency care for the
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