How much control should councils give citizens in deciding how services are delivered to them?

Carnegie UK Trust​ has a new report with important ideas.

Here are some of the photos I was commissioned to take at the Edinburgh report launch. Thanks to CUKT for asking me to capture this event.

Professor Richard Kerley, Professor of Management at Queen Margaret University, welcoming attendees to the Carnegie UK Trust event ‘A life-first approach: What citizens want from support services’, which he chaired.

 

Dan Blake, Head of Housing at Loretto Housing Association, answers a question in the panel discussion at the Carnegie UK Trust event ‘A life-first approach: What citizens want from support services’, listened to be fellow panel members: (from left) Professor Richard Kerley, Professor of Management at Queen Margaret University, who chaired the event; Jennifer Wallace, Head of Policy at Carnegie UK Trust; Simon Fitzpatrick, Strategic Development Director of Blackwood Group; and Sarah Smith, Director of LinkLiving.

 

Rebekah Menzies, Policy & Development Officer at Carnegie UK Trust, introduces participants to the group discussion workshops at the Carnegie UK Trust event ‘A life-first approach: What citizens want from support services’.

 

Participants took part in group discussion workshops at the Carnegie UK Trust event ‘A life-first approach: What citizens want from support services’.

 

Participants took part in group discussion workshops at the Carnegie UK Trust event ‘A life-first approach: What citizens want from support services’.

 

Participants took part in group discussion workshops at the Carnegie UK Trust event ‘A life-first approach: What citizens want from support services’.

 

Participants presented the posters resulting from the group discussion workshops at the Carnegie UK Trust event ‘A life-first approach: What citizens want from support services’.

 

Sarah Smith, Director of LinkLiving, taking part in the panel discussion at the Carnegie UK Trust event ‘A life-first approach: What citizens want from support services’.

 

Oliver Escobar, Co-Director of What Works Scotland, speaking at the Carnegie UK Trust event ‘A life-first approach: What citizens want from support services’.

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