The Liberated

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Some of Israel’s allies, including the United States, favour a more “surgical” strategy of using air strikes and special forces raids over a full land invasion of the Palestinian territory. Relational, strength based work and community development are well established and as such, our casework findings aren’t new. It’s important to understand that the Liberated Method doesn’t just operate at a casework level. To make this normal, leadership and governance has to be different (more focussed upon learning and enabling), method has to be different (using 2P5R and generally combining rules and principles rather than just using rules), scope has to be different, with relationships forming the scope rather than focussing upon navigating existing combinations of services (see image above), money has to flow differently to break the stalemate and ever allow prevention to truly happen, partnerships have to allow for caseworkers and specialists to believe each other’s information and be ‘pulled’ rather than referrals which require endless reassessment and masses of time and resources…. There were more than 60,000 emaciated prisoners in desperate need of sustenance and medical attention. Worse still, 13,000 corpses lay around the camp, unburied and rotting. Despite being experienced soldiers familiar with the horrors of war, they had never encountered anything like this.

As well as many Jews, the camp contained a cross-section of those the Nazis deemed inferior and enemies of their state. There were 20 nationalities altogether, in the most horrific conditions. Many had been marched from camps further east and then simply dumped at Belsen by their captors. Additionally, there was a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp attached, the inmates of which were also in an appalling state. As Allied troops made progress across Nazi-occupied Europe, they began to uncover concentration and extermination camps. The camp of Majdanek in Poland was the first to be liberated, in the summer of 1944. b. Such of the Associated Nations as have declared war on the common enemy by 1 March, 1945. When the conference on World Organization is held, the delegates of the United Kingdom and United States of America will support a proposal to admit to original membership two Soviet Socialist Republics, i.e., the Ukraine and White Russia. This initial piece is intended to summarise the emerging Liberated Method, explore its evolution and the implications for the existing network of services and systems. There are some deep dives within the material presented that we’ll explore and put out some thoughts on in the coming weeks and months:US troops liberated Buchenwald in April 1945, followed by Flossenburg, Dachau and Mauthausen. British Troops liberated Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945. Liberator Iolo Lewis recalled the sight that met the liberators: US forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, in April 1945, a few days after the Nazis began evacuating the camp. On the day of liberation, an underground prisoner resistance organization seizes control of Buchenwald to prevent atrocities by the retreating camp guards. American forces liberate more than 20,000 prisoners at Buchenwald. American forces also liberate the main camps of Dora-Mittelbau (April 1945), Flossenbuerg (April 1945), Dachau (April 1945), and Mauthausen (May 1945). Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, used a call with Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, to express his “serious concern at the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza”. The first successful rescue mission came as tanks surrounded and entered parts of Gaza City for the first time, cutting off a key escape route for civilians during the Israeli ground offensive. The British began investigating what had happened at Belsen immediately after the liberation of the camp. Later, a special military tribunal was convened between 17 September and 17 November 1945 in Lüneburg. It tried 44 men and women who had worked at Belsen. Eleven of the defendants were sentenced to death, including commandant Josef Kramer, head female guard Elisabeth Volkenrath, and camp doctor Fritz Klein. They were executed in Hamelin in December 1945.

The first major camp to be liberated was Majdanek near Lublin, Poland in July 1944. Surprised by the rapid Soviet advance from the east, the Germans attempted to hide the evidence of mass murder by demolishing much of the camp, but parts - including the gas chambers - were left standing. There are many diverse influences on the way that English is used across the world today. We look at some of the ways in which the language is changing. Read our series of blogs to find out more.Perspectives will vary, but it’s not a wild take to suggest that the purpose of public services is to help people to thrive. Public services are under constant pressure to transform and redesign services to ‘find efficiencies’. When we focus instead on efficacy, we get better results for less money. No efficiency focused service redesign can do that. We’re learning that the segue from extrinsic support being the dominant to the supporting element of the method for any given citizen can be difficult. For some it happens naturally and there is no obvious point where this occurs. For others, the process of creating new relationships with caseworkers to move away from crisis creates a temporary stability that requires specific effort to phase out when things are calmer. It’s a form of inertia which might well be called the ‘extrinsic loop’, which people are nervous about taking over the reins or are relatively comfortable in an unsustainable situation and aren’t drawn to accessing their intrinsic capacity to change things. Gordon was doing well, running his own business, and hardly ever accessing any services. He worked seasonally and his income was sporadic. This meant that his tax and benefits affairs were complicated. He was massively overpaying and underclaiming and getting into debt which was avoidable. His unusual income pattern meant that none of the standardised responses from HMRC or DWP would ever help him.