More money, skills and knowledge needed for social prescribing to serve as route into work

New funding, greater expertise and wider awareness in the system – and beyond – are needed to embed work outcomes into social prescribing practice. A new report from The Work Foundation, Embedding Work and Related Outcomes into Social Prescribing: Overcoming Challenges and Maximising Opportunities, says social prescribing can be an effective means of integrating people…

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Drink a Pint, Waste Less Food

In all his years in the beer industry, Keith McAvoy had never taken much professional interest in Coco Pops. From time to time, Mr. McAvoy, who runs the craft brewery Seven Brothers in Manchester, England, would raid his children’s supply of the chocolate-flavored breakfast cereal for “a cheeky bowl” or two — though only, he…

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