Across the West Midlands, partners have been working for years to move homelessness support upstream. The focus has been on prevention, on building systems that reduce the chance of crisis before it happens. The Renters’ Rights Act sits within that same direction of travel. It changes how the private rented sector works, with the aim […]
Elayos is a Birmingham-based charity working alongside mothers and babies through pregnancy, birth and those early months that can feel both joyful and overwhelming. Their work is rooted in doula support. That means walking alongside women in a practical and human way. Listening, advocating, and being there through pregnancy, labour and after birth. Many of […]
On Tuesday 3 March 2026 at Brierley Hill Civic Hall, partners from across Dudley came together for More than the essentials, hosted by Black Country Foodbank and Healthwatch Dudley in partnership with West Midlands Combined Authority. The focus was poverty, food insecurity and what it will take to respond together. Across the morning, three perspectives […]
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