Podcast feedKickstarting New Careers Through Access Courses
Matthew Clarke and Bradley Moon both left school at 16 with low qualifications. Matthew struggled with dyslexia and a lack of support at school. Bradley wasn’t interested in education, preferring to play football. Later in life, they each discovered the Access to Higher Education Programme, which has changed their lives. Here they talk with Camden Community Radio’s Alix Hattenstone about how Matthew has graduated with a first class Degree in Sports Science and Bradley is going into the third year of a Degree in Biomedical Science.
Package by:Alix Hattenstone
Recording: Violet Macdonald
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Healthwatch Social Media Campaign for 6thFormers
Healthwatch Camden plays an important part in ensuring that service providers hear what sort of health care local people want. Young people are the focus of a social media campaign that Healthwatch is running from 23rd-27th April. Based on a joint project with 6th form students in Camden, videos available on Instagram from 23rd April, will explore the three top health issues for school students. Lindi Maqhubela of Healthwatch Camden talked to Camden Community Radio about how the campaign will run, why it matters and about how Sixth form students created content and designed the campaign.
Package by: Marian Larragy
- Healthwatch Camden
- Healthwatch Instagram
- Click here for new videos on 23rd, 24th and 25th April 2018
- Back to Camden Community Radio
- Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter
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What's on in Camden for the week beginning 5th March 2018
Free Childcare at Maiden Lane Pre-School for over 3s and two year olds who meet the criteria; Employability Skills & English Language at the Working Men’s College for Men & Women; Roundhouse best young spoken word artists are at Camden Market for Spoken Word on the Cobbles, on Sunday 11th; Latin American Dance Workshop with Elsa Perez , 4.15pm-5.15pm, Tuesday 13th March. Tickets £6. Call Elsa Perez on 020 8769 3619 for more information. Or just turn up on Tuesday.
Read by: Freddy Chick & Marian Larragy
Edited: Marian Larragy
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Healthwatch Camden Reports on local Care Homes
Anna Wright tells how Healthwatch Camden was about to use its powers to visit and check on the quality of local care homes when it heard that ‘Independent Age’ was keen to develop indicators to help ordinary people to assess the quality of care homes they might think of using. The resulting collaboration was so successful that Independent Age is recommending that all MPs get their local Healthwatch to inspect and report on their local care homes using the eight quality indicators that they have developed.
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What Does HealthWatch Camden Do?
Frances Hasler of Healthwatch Camden explains how Healthwatch supports local people in improving services. By finding out what the priorities are for improvements in the provision of health and social care services, Helathwatch Camden then works to get things changed. Recently Healthwatch Camden helped the users of mental health services in Highgate to explain to Camden Council and to service providers what was wrong with the way that they were re-organising services. The work of Healthwatch Camden can influence future service provision on other issues as well.
Package by: Marian Larragy
- Healthwatch Camden
- Healthwatch Camden/Independent Age Develop quality indicators on Local Care Homes
- Healthwatch Camden Reports on Local Care Homes
- Healthwatch Camden on Transformation & Sustainability Plans for NHS in Camden
- Back to Camden Community Radio home page
- Follow Camden Community Radio on Twitter
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