In this webinar, Sophie Humphreys and Alex Fox, practitioners with years of experience in tackling this challenge, share their approaches to system change which are structured yet human, putting the complex needs of individuals at the heart of their strategy.

Social care and health systems which support people on a massive scale can at times be rigid, inflexible and dispiriting for those seeking to change them for the better. Sophie and Alex, who have both worked at the frontline of public services, will show that to transform a system from within, it helps to look at both the challenges and the opportunities from a different angle. That reframing, which starts with learning how we can help people live the lives they want, rather than assessing their needs for a service, can unlock new energy, create new relationships and so bring new resources into play.

Interview: Sophie Humphreys OBE

Sophie will share her experience setting up Pause, a programme to help vulnerable mothers take control over their lives, breaking intergenerational cycles of ingrained abuse and multiple pregnancies. Learn from Sophie’s success in scaling Pause to local authorities across the UK and discover how she has distilled an effective method in which public services break entrenched cycles of exclusion, disadvantage and violence. Since founding Pause Sophie has gone on to apply the same values and practices in Whatever It Takes, a programme to tackle knife crime amongst young people. Follow Sophie Humphreys on twitter.

Interview: Alex Fox OBE

CEO of Shared Lives Plus and author of “A New Health and Care System: Escaping the Invisible Asylum”.

Alex is an entrepreneur and a poet, which makes him particularly thoughtful and reflective about how innovation uncovers new possibilities. Alex leads Shared Lives Plus, which supports Shared Lives schemes across the United Kingdom. Those schemes create a structured way for families to open up their own homes to offer adult care services. As vice chair of Think Local Act Personal, Alex promotes solutions which address what he calls ‘The Paradox of Scale’: how to ensure large-scale public service systems provide the intimate relationships that people need to live well. Follow Alex Fox on twitter.

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