Care England is delighted to that Bailey Greetham-Clark, our Ambassador and Founder of Be Great Fitness, met with Prime Minister Andy Burnham earlier today at a local Salford community hub to play a game of BINGO with local residents and to talk about their shared passion for the sector, prevention, physical activity, and their role in shaping a National Care Service.
Professor Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive of Care England, said:
“We are so proud that Bailey Greetham-Clark joined the Prime Minister at the Humphrey Booth Resource Centre in Salford, a centre that does extraordinary work supporting people living with dementia and the families who love them. Seeing the Prime Minister sit down for a game of bingo and take the time to hear directly from local residents and families, shows a real recognition of what good care looks like. This is exactly the conversation adult social care needs to be having. Bailey, Care England’s Ambassador, has shown brilliantly how this type of engagement, movement, purpose and prevention can transform people’s lives, and we are incredibly proud to see him taking that message directly to national leaders in a setting that means so much to so many. Any future National Care Service must put prevention at its heart and recognise that care providers and community hubs, like those at Humphrey Booth, are the infrastructure in neighbourhood health that makes this possible every single day. We look forward to supporting Government to work directly with providers to turn that ambition into reality.”
Bailey’s meeting with the Prime Minister builds on Care England’s ongoing work with Be Great Fitness to demonstrate the importance of physical engagement, activity, prevention and independence in adult social care. Through our From Inactivity to Independence white paper series, Bailey and Care England explored both the practical benefits of embedding movement into everyday care and the measurable impact on prevention and the effect this can have on people’s health, wellbeing and quality of life, which has also informed our wider policy recommendations, including a submission to Baroness Casey’s review of adult social care.
Notes to Editors:
- Care England announces Bailey Greetham-Clark as its first-ever Ambassador.
- Our White paper series with Be Great Fitness can be found via the following links:
- Clips and coverage from the care home visit can be found here.
Media contact: For further comment or to arrange an interview with Professor Martin Green, please contact Antonella Corby, at ACorby@careengland.org.uk
Comments
Login/Register to leave a comment