Citizens Assemblies have gone mainstream, no longer are they the preserve of democracy geeks who have the Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy on their bedside tables. Climate activists, politicians and health professionals are excited by their potential. Peter Bryant tells…
Launching the recommendations On Wednesday 6th February the Scottish Health Council and Chief Medical Officer’s Realistic Medicine Team launched the Recommendations from Scotland’s Citizens’ Jury on Shared Decision Making. At the launch event, held in the Steeple Centre in Dundee…
After 6 weeks of deliberation our Inquiry in Care at Home produced compelling recommendations for transforming how services in Greater Manchester are commissioned and delivered. The 'what' and the 'why. Following the launch of the Inquiry report we now invite Health and Social Care Commissioners across Greater Manchester to commit to considering 'how' the recommendations might be implemented.
An opportunity to improve Care at Home services in Greater Manchester. “What would it take to help people to have a good life at home for as long as they choose?” The Inquiry itself has now concluded, and we have…
After 6 weeks of deliberation our Inquiry have produced compelling recommendations for transforming how services in Greater Manchester are commissioned and delivered. The 'what' and the 'why'.
We now invite you to work together, in a participatory way, to develop ideas on 'how' the recommendations might be implemented.
In 2017 Shared Future facilitated 4 citizen led inquiries into Health and Wellbeing in Blackpool. These short videos, taken on the 4th May 2017 explain the reasons behind why they were needed and what went on. The interviews were filmed…
On the 31st January 2017 a new West Midlands Mental Health Commission Action Plan was launched by Norman Lamb MP. Central to the production of the action plan was a citizens jury, organised by Shared Future CIC. Thrive West Midlands…
In spring 2016, fifteen residents of the West Midlands, with lived experience, met for eight sessions of deliberation. Their task was to produce a set of recommendations for the West Midlands Mental Health Commission on how public services can be…
In a recent Citizens Inquiry in the Wirral, twenty residents from all walks of life worked together over nine evenings to think through how to make alcohol a healthy part of their community and reduce the harmful aspects, in terms…
The Wirral Alcohol Inquiry, commissioned by Wirral Borough Council and led by Peter Bryant and Nick Beddow, brought together a group of local residents to try and answer the question: “What can we all do to make it easier for people to have a…