Year: 2009

  • Michael Rosen’s poem to celebrate the NHS joins “Poems for…” and goes bilingual

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    Photograph: Graham Turner 2008 was the 60th birthday of the NHS. As part of the celebrations, the NHS commissioned Michael Rosen, still then the official Children’s Poet Laureate, to write a poem. His “These are the Hands” is meant to be for children but is appreciated by all age-groups. With its subject a health service…

  • Does Listening to People Need Skill ? Does it Matter ?

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    An opinion piece by Rogan Wolf has been published in the February edition of “Open Mind,” a bi-monthly periodical produced by “MIND,” the national charity. The full version of the piece can be read here. It expresses Rogan’s concern that top-down directives requiring managers to consult with the users of their services, have led to…

  • “Poems for…the wall” website attracts world-wide interest

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    Rogan Wolf, the project worker for “Poems for…the wall”, put together the short report during Christmas 2008. It entailed tracking all the registrations the new site had received since the April launch, and establishing where they had come from and how they planned to use poem-posters once down-loaded. You can read the report here.Findings from…