NDTi Insights

Insights 12 Commissioning for Inclusion Materials

This Insights is about how commissioners can help make sure that services help people to live good lives in their communities.

Insights 11 - Commissioning Employment Supports

This publication summarises the learning from work undertaken by NDTi around supporting people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problems into paid work.

Insights 10 - Incentives for Achieving Change in Private Sector Learning Disability Hospitals

NDTi published a new Insights to share the findings and lessons from an eighteen month DH funded project designed to encourage private sector providers of learning disability hospitals to...

Insights 8 & 9 - Independent Living Strategy projects

NDTi published two new Insights to share the findings and lessons from government funded Demonstration Projects on independent living.

NDTi worked with the Office for Disability Issues and six local...

Insights 7 - Prevention that works

NDTi evaluated two Partnerships for Older People Programme (POPP) pilots, in Poole and Dorset. These pilots tested new ways of preventing older people from going into hospital or moving into care...

Insights 6 - Feeling Settled

The NDTi looked at places which had changed from being care homes for people with learning disabilities to supported living services and produced this best practice guide.

Insights 5 - Short Breaks for Disabled Children and their Families

The NDTi looked at places that had been the first in England to start trying to improve short breaks for disabled children (called Pathfinders). The report says what they did that worked well. This...

Insights 4 - Commissioning services for people with learning disabilities who challenge services

A Guide has been written to help people who plan and pay for services (commissioners) improve services for people with learning disabilities who are said to be 'challenging' - which means that...

Insights 3 - Increasing Voice, Choice & Control for Older People with High Support Needs

'Emerging Lessons' has been written to help people planning and providing services for older people with high support needs. This includes older people who are living in care homes and those who...

Insights 2 - The Real Tenancy Test

'The Real Tenancy Test' has been written to help people providing housing and support services for people with learning disabilities. It is a simple test, based on a small number of questions, to...

Insights 1 - Making The Move

'Making the Move' has been written to help people planning and managing housing and support services for people with learning disabilities. It explains the difference between supported living and...