By Lisa Carnegie If you want to make positive change a sustained way forward, you need sound governance, frameworks and practice guidelines. This is particularly true when your work is the provision of human services. You need to get the foundations in place to build...
By Jill Maginnity “Nothing about us, without us”. This empowering statement emerged from the disability rights movement and it absolutely reminds all of us at Afford that client advocacy is one of the key areas of our commitment to being a human...
By Florence Lau To say you’re all about your clients but then not listening to them means that you’re not really about your clients. We’re proud we’ve changed at Afford and we are not just about listening – we’re about hearing what our clients are telling us,...
By Katelyn Barakat We’re proud we’ve changed and we set the bar high on the qualifications we expect our people to have when they start working at Afford. This is especially the case with client-facing roles, but we also hire highly skilled corporate services talent...
By Alison Chung ‘Taking the time to reflect, self-evaluate and learn from mistakes are the hallmarks of high-performing teams and high performing organisations. We are well on the way to building the foundations for ensuring our practice and services are...
By Peter Orr, Chief Operations Officer When I started at Afford as our Chief Operations Officer 15 months ago, it was clear that we had to improve the quality of the properties we offered to clients. They weren’t of a good enough standard, let alone the aspirational...
