Location
Years
2021 – 2024
Purpose
To co-produce innovative local solutions to address four key determinants of health and well-being:
- future prosperity (tackling child poverty)
- healthy environment (tackling climate breakdown)
- making time for each other (tackling loneliness and social isolation)
- looking out for each other (preventing suicide)
Activity
A group of local young adults developed initial ideas and concepts. With the fundamental theme of stability of security for children, they prioritised and produced a vision and aims for two issues: enjoyable work and good homes. The group then engaged with professional ‘decision makers’ (from health, housing, planning and skills and work) to develop the ideas and concepts and to co-produce specific proposals.
On enjoyable work, in the short-term, the group tested recruitment and selection processes of large local employers.
On good homes, in the short-term, the group produced Your Good Home, a magazine that inspires people on a low income to create a good home.
Impact
On enjoyable work, for the long term, the group produced a series of ideas for employers on Inclusive Recruitment: accessing the untapped potential of unemployed young adults. Two large employers used this to redesign their recruitment processes. Salford City Council created its Step into Salford employment pathway to support young people, particularly those from priority groups.
On good homes, for the long term, the group produced Good Homes in Good Places, a proposal for a Homes Strategy that reflects on their experiences. This was adopted as a specific objective in Good Homes in Good Places: Salford’s Good Homes Strategy 2025-2030.
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