Neighbourhood Healthcare Forum, Whitechapel, London

This meeting was all about the healthcare needs of local people people in Whitechapel. 

The needs of the group were about accessing timely healthcare interventions and basic access to GP appointments, these concerns reflect the current situation nationally, as since 2020 there have been a lot less GP appointments available.

Chinese Students visit Derby

A large format image (1 metre square) commissioned by a school in Derby to celebrate a recent cultural exchange. They packed a lot in to 3 days!

I wasn't there for the 3 day trip, I was sent a description of what the head wanted to include, as well as photos and descriptions. It was fun bringing it all to life!
 

National Co-Production Week

I had a wonderful afternoon in Hammersmith recently, this was commissioned by Hammersmith and Fulham council, but the participants were local disabled residents who are mainly volunteers, speaking on behalf of all local disabled residents and steering services using the method of Co-Production.

Really energetic crowd, favourite phrase of the day: 'let's be ruthlessly inclusive!

More info on the work they're doing here: https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/councillors-and-democracy/co-production-doing-things-residents-not-residents/co-production-matters-hf

Cafcass Managers Conference

Had a busy week last week, this was done at the venue, but I scribed digitally on my Ipad. 

Cafcass are under considerable pressure due to the volume of families in the courts. They've also recently been judged as 'outstanding' by Ofsted, so the challenge will to stay at that level of performance, despite the huge workload. 

Listening to the child and being their advocate is at the heart of their work.

 

British Screen Forum

 Had a great morning last week, working on a round table discussion with the British Screen Forum https://britishscreenforum.co.uk/, on what the future political horizon will hold in store for the sector. 

Not long now until we find out...

Keeping Children in School, Derby Inclusion Partnership

Had a fab time up in Derby City last week scribing for their Inclusive Partnership, and I loved how the've embraced my drawings and are using them for a campaign to get kids back into school, and enjoying themselves there!

They've teamed up with the talented team at Fluid Media: https://www.fluid-ideas.co.uk/ to do a media campaign, more on that later in the summer :)

This (pink image) was for the teaser for the campaign:

Healthy Child and Teen Relationships

I was asked by the charity Let Me Know https://lmkletmeknow.org to draw several healthy and unhealthy relationship scenarios that would be used by their practitioners to help inform discussions about healthy relationships for children and young people, mainly peer to peer. The wish is to empower the children and young people to feel confident in their choices and to make the decisions that are right for them.

This project involved being briefed carefully on the wording of the situations, then working together to define what situation to apply them to, plus being mindful of inclusive representation.

I've mixed them up a bit, can you spot the difference between the healthy and unhealthy ones? Hope so!