by Rachel Angarano | Oct 31, 2021 | Being IMPOWER
Tessa Sanderson CBE is one of Britain’s greatest ever track and field athletes Last week, I was fortunate enough to represent IMPOWER at the Bradford Service Excellence Awards sponsoring the ‘Child at the heart of all we do’ award. It was here that I had the great...
by Rachel Angarano | May 13, 2021 | Being IMPOWER
Earlier this month, Ebony Hughes explained why employee wellbeing is key in organisational resilience. This belief is not limited to our clients; employee wellbeing has also become an integral component of IMPOWER’s own operating model and conditions for success. Last...
by Rachel Angarano | Feb 18, 2021 | Adult social care, Being IMPOWER, Local government transformation
Tried and tested behavioural science techniques help public sector organisations to embed a behavioural focus in their response to the coronavirus crisis. Over the past ten months, we have witnessed something close to a renaissance in behavioural science thinking and...
by Rachel Angarano | Oct 27, 2020 | Being IMPOWER
Zakes Mda is a South African novelist, poet, playwright and educator. My influential person for Black History Month is a South African novelist, poet, playwright and educator, Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (better known by his pen name Zakes Mda). Mda was born in 1948...
by Rachel Angarano | Apr 29, 2020 | Adult social care
Since the government asked councils to house all rough sleepers a month ago, the latest figures show that 90% have now been offered safe accommodation, albeit temporarily. This directive, along with other measures such as increasing Local Housing Allowance rates,...