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A Negative Discount Rate for Social Innovation? 22 Aug 2013 | 01:34 pm
The beauty and the beast of the problem when it comes to evaluating social innovation is that the benefits tend to take the form of reducing the need for future remedial public spending. It’s often c...
Patient Council will influence the local Health Service 21 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
Chamberlain Forum is working with the NHS Birmingham Cross City Clinical Commissioning Group to recruit patient representatives to a new Patient Council which will influence the CCG on how it spends £...
Why Faith Matters… (and leadership is about more than leaders) 15 Aug 2013 | 04:52 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, Jews and Buddhists are amongst the most community-minded people I know. All religions have their Pharisees too: the...
Neighbourhood Coproduction for Birmingham 14 Aug 2013 | 10:42 pm
Birmingham City Council – the largest first tier authority in Europe – is putting together a new Neighbourhood Strategy. It’s a critical piece of policy for a city of more than a million people – and...
Mrs Green Has A Great Idea… 13 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
Mrs Green has a great idea which could make her neighbourhood a better place to live – and save some public money. Trouble is: no one wants to know. Who does she approach? How does she find out abo...
CrossCity Patient Council Open Morning – 9th August at St Martin’s in the Bull Ring 5 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Chamberlain Forum is working with NHS Birmingham’s CrossCity Clinical Commissioning Group to set up a new body to make sure that patients’ views are ...
The Public is Wrong… more Power to the People! 5 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Prisons are like holiday camps; benefit claimants are mostly lazy scroungers; and, on the other hand, zero hours contracts are nothing but a retu...
Supporting Birmingham to Enable its Neighbourhoods 2 Aug 2013 | 07:17 pm
Linda Hines from Witton Lodge Community Association talked about her group and others as the ‘little societies’ which can make neighbourhoods work better at the BeBirmingham Summit in 2011 Chamber...
Supporting Tenants in Regulating Their Landlord 25 Jul 2013 | 03:11 pm
HLBs have been around for 20 years – but the Localism Act has given tenant panels like them new powers and responsibilities Chamberlain Forum is working to support tenants in Birmingham to play an ac...
Left, Right… or Nasty? 25 Jul 2013 | 01:01 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Andrew Mitchell MP – when he swore at the police’, it fitted with the popular idea of the ‘Nasty Party’. The real divide in politics isn’t left ...
