Things in themselves?
The world is always dividing poverty up into different parts - work, literacy, housing, health.
We have to stop seeing things as 'things in themselves'. We have to stop separating life into categories.
If, like me, you want to solve poverty, you can't separate poverty out into separate things. You have to hit poverty square in the eye.
You have to have the whole works, the Rolls-Royce service. Not some piss-poor bit of relief here, or a shoulder to cry on there.
We have to bring a complete set of tools to converge the energy of dismantling poverty, and not leave it flaring up again ("because we forgot a bit of it" ).
Yet the worlds of thinking, of society, of government, always break things up into smaller pieces. Into 'things in themselves'.
Someone, somewhere, has to bring it all together. There has to be a convergent force, otherwise it's disparate, uneven, and likely to continue - or appear in some new form.
We cannot carry on in this brainless bit here, bit there. We need to bring it all together.
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6 年The ability to be 'joined-up' in thinking, is a vital, problem-solving tool for the Public sector. I suggest, the Public sector, and those responsible for running it, have to reinvent themselves and that of the Public policy demands that remain of high priority for Public use. If policy development started from a position of understanding that "it is the Public who is paying their wages and expect the highest potential of positive outcomes to be achieved, then we may be starting on a better footing... and Poverty may well be understood for its causes of "Poor Policy influencing Poor Outcomes... and Poor Health."