Onward and upward into 2026

Jan Burns Moderator 31/12/25 Dignity Champions forum

As we step into 2026, let’s take a moment to reflect and look forward with purpose. This year is about the power and influence of our champions, and the strength that comes when we effectively and compassionately work together.

No single person, team, or organisation creates change alone. Our impact is built through collaboration — by sharing learning, listening to lived experience, and supporting one another to turn commitment into action. Our champions play a vital role in this, inspiring dedication, confidence, and collective responsibility to promote dignity as a human right for all.
Throughout 2026 we will be celebrating 20 years of campaigning for dignity and human rights. This milestone belongs to everyone who has contributed — past and present — and it reminds us what is possible when people unite around a shared vision.
We invite everyone to share their good news stories. Let’s celebrate progress, amplify each other’s successes, and learn from what works.
These stories will fuel hope, strengthen partnerships, and inspire the next wave of change DIGNITY FOREVER IN THE HEART MIND AND ACTIONS Thank you for all that you do.

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annmarie clossick 05/01/26

training

mike stone 09/01/26

Hi Jan,

It is an ongoing struggle.

A friend of mine died on Christmas Eve. She had, a few years ago, been commissioned to re-write and improve the NHS 'training materials' for the Mental Capacity Act which are online: she put a LOT of effort into doing that. For the last year or two, she was deeply unhappy that the material she had put so much effort into writing, seemed to no longer be accessible. I'm not happy about that, either! I don't think that MCA-training material has been replaced by anything else - as I understood it, it has just 'disappeared'.

This seems to have created the rather odd situation that my friend's (she was a very prominent social worker) written efforts to improve understanding of the MCA have now disappeared, while my own written material to the same ends still persists and can be found [largely] within this discussion forum.

We all need to 'keep at it' - because progress can so easily be lost, and reversed.

Jan Burns Moderator 09/01/26

Hi Mike
I’m very sorry to hear about your friend’s death. It’s heartbreaking to think that such careful, committed work on the MCA appears to have disappeared.

You’re right that progress isn’t secure unless it’s continually tended. Spaces like this forum matter because they help keep that understanding alive.
Thankyou for your continued dedication and commitment and for ‘keeping at it’!.

Jan Burns Moderator 09/01/26

Hi Mike
I’m very sorry to hear about your friend’s death. It’s heartbreaking to think that such careful, committed work on the MCA appears to have disappeared.