The example of Tera was an opportunity for the communication experts participating in the workshop to focus on telling the story of the Great Green Wall – vital to mobilise the huge support needed so this great African initiative can realise its epic ambition of creating a great mosaic of green and productive landscapes across North Africa, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa.
Change management guru John Kotter identified this as a vital component for leaders to gain the support needed for their ideas to achieve valuable results.
"To cut academies away from local authority support will lead to a serious fragmentation of the education system, and leave schools without the vital support they need," she said.
"Failure to do so means in reality that thousands of disabled and older people will be left isolated without the vital support they need to get up, washed and dressed, or forced to make impossible choices in flying care visits".
Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of Alzheimer's Society:"In setting the eligibility criteria for council-funded social care so high, thousands of people with dementia will be cut off from the vital support they need and deserve.
Hunt dropped hints that the autumn statement might yield extra money to prop up the ailing social care system in England, which the Care Quality Commisison last week warned was "approaching a tipping point" and denying growing numbers of elderly people vital support they need to keep them healthy.
It is essential that local authorities responsible for them provide the vital support they need to keep them safe and well and to encourage their potential," he said.
More people need vital support, more highways need paving, more weather emergencies erupt, more existing debt needs to be paid.
Investment in these vital support services is needed now to help guide these children to a safer future.
We plan to train all frontline staff in child poverty awareness and intervention, including educating households on the uptake of benefits and other key services that offer the vital support and help needed to alleviate the issues associated with poverty.
We have sent a clear signal to the Tories that the British people will not accept this scale of attack on the vital support they need.
