Author Archives: FaithAction

Yesterday marked 75 years of the National Health Service. Founded in 1948, the NHS was the first universal health system to be available to all, free at the point of delivery. The NHS report that “nine in 10 people agree that healthcare should be free […]

The National Academy of Social Prescribing (NASP), along with other partners including NHS England, have published a new toolkit, following the Green Social Prescribing Test and Learn Programme launched in April 2021. This toolkit is designed to help communities, organisations and health professionals who are […]

The Inter Faith Network (IFN) has recently updated the resource section of its document Looking after one another: The safety and security of our faith communities. This document was originally created in consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and […]

Clinks, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have published ‘The State of the Sector Survey’, which aims to get a picture of the current challenges facing voluntary sector organisations and some independent practitioners working with people in contact with the criminal justice system […]

The Maternity Consortium, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are working to coproduce resources to help healthcare professionals work with young parents on safer sleep for babies. The Lullaby Trust have developed two surveys to gather input into the development of the resources. Survey for […]

In 2023 and 2024, the Home Office is continuing to provide protective security measures to places of worship in England and Wales under two schemes: Places of Worship Protective Security Funding Scheme Protective Security for Mosques Scheme The schemes provide funding for places of worship […]

Carers Trust has published Time Away from Caring: Good Practice in carer breaks – a case study led report which highlights good practice in providing carer breaks. Carers Trust developed this report and resources as part of the VSCE Health and Wellbeing Alliance, alongside Carers […]

The British Red Cross and Campaign to End Loneliness, as Secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Tackling Loneliness and Connected Communities, are seeking to refresh their call to action on loneliness, looking ahead to the next five years. They want to develop a […]

FaithAction recently contributed to a new report by VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance members National Voices. The report, A shift to multidisciplinary teams in general practice: What this means for people experiencing health inequalities and frequent users of primary care services, looks at how the […]

Revolving Doors, a member of VSCE Health & Wellbeing Alliance partner Clinks, has partnered with the University of Lincoln to set out to improve healthcare for people on probation by developing a set of standards & quality indicators for health improvement. The project, led by […]