Hard Times

“It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.” – Charles Dickens, Hard Times 

It almost goes without saying that we are working through hard times. Years of under resourcing health and social care has left services threadbare. Social care is the invisible web of support that holds individual lives, families, communities and wider society together. It doesn’t attract the same attention as the NHS but there is barely a family untouched by the support it provides. 

Like many not-for-profit organisations, C-Change is weathering these straightened times with creativity and resourcefulness. The social care workforce gives in measures that are not easily captured on the bottom of a budget balance sheet.  

The social care sector is in a parlous state. There is a danger that we will only realise it’s true values when it is lost. We work alongside others to ensure that this will not be the case. We endeavour to make the money work while keeping to our values and our principles. We will always put people first. 

As Charles Dickens wrote in Hard Times, 

“Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.”