
Radical Help
How We Can Remake the Relationships Between Us and Revolutionise the Welfare State
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Narrated by:
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Hilary Cottam
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Hilary Cottam
About this listen
How should we live: how should we care for one another; grow our capabilities to work, to learn, to love and fully realise our potential? This exciting and ambitious book shows how we can redesign the welfare state for this century.
The welfare state was revolutionary: it lifted thousands out of poverty and provided decent homes, good education and security. But it is out of kilter now: an elaborate and expensive system of managing needs and risks. Today we face new challenges. Our resources have changed.
Hilary Cottam takes us through five 'experiments' to show us a new design. We start on a Swindon housing estate where families who have spent years revolving within our current welfare systems are supported to design their own way out. We spend time with young people who are helped to make new connections - with radical results. We turn to the question of good health care and then to the world of work and see what happens when people are given different tools to make change. Then we see those over 60 design a new and affordable system of support.
At the heart of this way of working is human connection. Upending the current crisis of managing scarcity, we see instead that our capacities for the relationships that can make the changes are abundant.
We must work with individuals, families and communities to grow the core capabilities we all need to flourish. Radical Help describes the principles behind the approach, the design process that makes the work possible and the challenges of transition. It is bold - and, above all, practical. It is not a book of dreams. It is about concrete new ways of organising that already have been developing across Britain. Radical Help creates a new vision and a radically different approach that can take care of us once more, from cradle to grave.
©2019 Hilary Cottam (P)2019 W. F. HowesCritic reviews
"Packed with moving vignettes...Cottam's ideas could help transform the way we all live." (New Statesman)
total inspiration
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I cannot recommend this highly enough!
A game-changer worth everybody's time!
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It is a cliche to say that everyone should read it but I pray that everyone in governance does.
Very enjoyable, truly inspiring, easy to listen to, and beautifully read.
Brilliant and visionary.
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Cottam is a social designer, and this is not just a theoretical book about how things should or could work better, but the story of someone who has tried to do so. The problem is its just Cottam's viewpoint of why something did or did not work. It's a book written by the protagonist of the story. This makes it frustrating, it would be great to understand better other people's perspectives, and have an independent view.
However, such a more balanced less passionate view, would probably be a much less interesting listen.
Fascinating but leaves you asking questions
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Lovely Sentiments
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Community recaptured
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Hats off to a courageous visionary
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