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Welcome to our Annual Review 2021/22
It is hard to believe that just a year ago we were still amidst the restrictions brought about as the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. But we were, and for much of 2021/22 were still coping with lockdowns or partial restrictions and then just as things were being lifted, Omicron struck near to
the end of 2021. It felt like here we go again with more uncertainty, both about the present and the future, and how we would manage both the organisation and the shape of the services we would provide. Moving through 2022, we have slowly shifted back to more normality, but only then to
be hit by a cost of living crisis, which is going to hit hardest the communities most affected by Covid-19 and the previous 10 or so years of austerity. This means for mental health services we are seeing more need for services with more complexity, and what feels like less room for manoeuvre.
2021/22 was the year we started moving back
into the offices and getting to grips with what hybrid working would look like and how it would be managed. Those services that hadn’t delivered face- to-face, started to and we also began to assess how our services would be delivered in the future.
At this stage there was no certainty that we would return to “normal”.
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