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Over 4,300 children in Manchester are homeless and vulnerable to missing the vital support that schools can provide. Living in Temporary Accommodation can deeply affect their educational attainment and often schools are unaware of a families housing situation until crisis point.

Manchester City Council have adopted a notification protocol that informs schools and GPs of a child’s homelessness status. It is essential these services are aware so they can support the families where needed. Therefore, Manchester City Council, Manchester Communication Academy and the Shared Health Foundation are hosting an online training session that will provide detailed guidance as to how schools can best support our most vulnerable children after receiving this notification on Thursday 16th January at 3:30pm. To join, please use the link below: 

Zoom link

Meeting ID: 829 5690 1265

Passcode: 252636

Please click here to view the guidance for schools when receiving a Temporary Accommodation notification.

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“It’s shocking, and it should be”

Good health should be shared with all. It should not be damaged by social or economic disadvantage.

Alongside colleagues from Deep End GM, Shared Health Foundation hosted a day of clinical training for GPs in Greater Manchester working in the Deep End of medicine at our annual Doctors in Deprivation Training Day.

It was a day of laughter, tears, challenge and most of all encouragement to keep going.

“I feel like I’ve spent half a day in Disneyland, and the other half in a puppy graveyard” states journalist Jessica Bradley who attended the conference and has written her reflections on the conference and the GP Training Scheme run by Shared Health.

The video recordings of all the talks can be found on our Youtube channel, please do watch and share with your colleagues.

We are proud to be part of the Deep End Network and look forward to hosting more gatherings to look at the impact of poverty on health in our communities.

For more information about Shared Health please email contact@contactsharedhealth.org.uk

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There are 151,630 homeless children in England living in Temporary Accommodation (data from March 2024).

Many are living in dangerous conditions with little support to help them navigate through our complex systems. Families are continuously placed out of area, far away from their school, GP and community. The educational attainment of homeless children plummets when they become homeless. The barriers to healthcare increases and children’s health and development suffer. There is a national focus and political will for rough sleeping, but less so for families. And tragically, 55 children have died in Temporary Accommodation, most were under 1.

And yet, we dare to hope.

The Homeless Families Conference: Dare to Hope was hosted by the Shared Health Foundation in partnership with GMCA to encourage, support and inspire people working with homeless families in any capacity. If you feel like you’re on your own, you’re not.

We want to bring together our experts by experience alongside colleagues from housing, health, education, the home office and the voluntary and faith sector. Whether you are front line, a volunteer, a commissioner or a politician, the crisis of homeless families is all our responsibility to share.

Things can and will get better.

The video recordings of all the talks can be found on our YouTube channel, please do watch and share with your colleagues.

We look forward to hosting more gatherings to look at and work to improve the health and education outcomes for children and families in the homelessness journey.

For more information about Shared Health please email contact@contactsharedhealth.org.uk

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Doctors in Deprivation Training Day Tuesday 27th June 2023

Join us at our annual education event where we will give Primary Care staff the tools and knowledge to provide an environment in your workplace where everyone has the best chance of living a healthy life, regardless of their circumstances.

The pressures on Primary Care have increased year on year, and there is no sign of this stopping, especially in areas hit the hardest by the pandemic lockdowns, and the rise in cost of living. Amongst talk of “levelling up” and targets to “reduce health inequalities” – what is it we can actually do?

We will explore the challenges faced by those working in areas of deprivation and disadvantaged communities and share the hopeful work organisations in Greater Manchester and beyond are doing to reduce health inequalities and the impact of poverty on health.

Get to grips with the health inequalities that many people face, and how you can help put things right. Learn about the causes and effects of health inequalities, and find out about the ways in which GPs and healthcare staff can do their bit to make a difference.

We hope that after attending your skills, outlook and understanding will have been transformed and you will feel more hopeful in your vital grassroots work.

Tickets to the event are free of charge

Additional information

A certificate of attendance will be awarded digitally to all participants after the training day. This will include CPD Points.

Lunch and refreshments are included. Dietary requirements can be specified on the order form.

The LifeCentre has full disabled access and facilities, including disabled parking, a deaf loop, automatic doors, a lift and disabled toilets on each of the three floors.

Click here to book your free tickets

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Welcome to our podcast ‘Hope in the Deep End‘, brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.

In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.

In this episode we meet Alex Bax, CEO of Pathway. 

Pathway is the UK’s leading homeless healthcare charity; and has helped 11 hospitals in England to create teams who take care of over 3500 homeless patients every year. Pathway also carries out research and provides training through the Faculty for Homeless and Inclusion Health, a network of more than 1700 people who are passionate about healthcare for excluded groups. People who have been homeless are included in every area of our work.

Laura and Alex discuss the welfare state, the impact of shame and what hope we can bring to the most entrenched situations.

Follow us on Twitter @Sharedhealthgm
Want to appear on ‘Hope in the Deep End’? Email us on contact@sharedhealth.org.uk

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Welcome to our podcast ‘Hope in the Deep End’, brought to you by the Shared Health Foundation.

In this podcast series we are exploring all the different complexities of working in areas of deprivation, poverty and entrenched health inequalities. From clinicians to youth workers, we want to inspire, challenge and give inspiration to all those that work in the deep end.