integrate the efforts of local government social work departments and the charity sector to deliver improvements for the most vulnerable in society

The primary losers in the current crisis are and will remain the most vulnerable sectors, the poor, the elderly, the disabled and the particular;y the poor and disabled young i.e. those children in the ASN category. Even before the current crisis these chidren's needs were under-resourced. For instance we had waiting lists of up to 2 years for access to child mental health services. Despite the policies of national government these children were being failed. I assert that this failure was not due to a lack of resources acrros the health, social and charity sectors but to extraordinary inefficiensies created through the absenceof integration among these services. I find it most enlightening to observe the pace at which things have changed in the current crisis as existing barriers to working together have broken down, inter-sector rivalries have disappeared and most of all impentrable bureaucracies have been pushed aside. Suddenly local government officials have felt empowered to do things, committees that were so intrinisic to any decision making have been swept aside, funding decisions are getting made in the best interest of outcomes rather than in the maintenance of procurement procedures.
So my big idea is to capture the learnings of the Covid-19 world and use them to drive out bureacracy, interangecy rivalries and the waste of resources and time that are embedded features of our current system and to capture the extraordinary spirit of all carers in our community that has been revealed.

Why the contribution is important

Economic chaos will demand new solutions but they are presenting themselves to us. If we fail to capture these lessons we will condemn the most vulneralbe in society to an even worse future

by vannir on May 09, 2020 at 09:11PM

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