Project Archive

Experience shows that employers are very willing to employ people with learning disabilities, with mental health conditions and young people with SEND. IT is important to present employers with the business case for giving people...

Early intervention is essential with young people who are labelled as having special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) if they are to have a life of work rather than a life in services. We know...

Commissioned by the World Health Organisation in a project jointly funded by the European Community and the Turkish Government, NDTi worked on an evaluation of the Home Based Care Service which offers financial support to...

A partnership between Inclusion North, Dimensions, H.S.A. and the NDTi recently held a very inspiring and challenging conference to consider how we take forward the achievements of the past ten years.

Working with the Office for Disability Issues on a regional initiative focused on independent living with and for older people who have high support needs.

As part of Yorkshire and Humberside’s programme to deliver best practice and outcomes on employment for people with mental health problems and learning disabilities, the NDTi has been commissioned to offer planning support to Local...

An independent evaluation of the Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) of Northern Ireland.

NDTi has worked with the Department of Health on the development and design of the Achieving Age Equality Toolkit – a web based resource which is intended at assist people working within the health and...

The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) and Community Catalysts share a concern that older people (including those with high support needs) are too often seen as a burden and a drain on resources, rather...

Many local authorities have changed services from residential care to supported housing for people with learning disabilities. Much of this change has focussed on achieving wider access to welfare benefits and having a tenancy.

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) places the individual at the heart of the decision making process and has the potential to improve the lives of many people, but the implementation of the act has...

The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health (2016) – the result of intensive public engagement and co-produced by a wide-ranging Task Force - highlighted that one in five older people living in the community...

A lot of effort has gone into Transforming Care in the last few years, but in our view there are still some fundamental problems to be addressed in many areas.

Supported by the Integrated Personal Commissioning team, the NDTi is facilitating action learning sets for commissioners responsible for delivering change under Transforming Care.

NDTi are working with the National Skills Academy for Social Care to deliver the Commissioning Now training programme which provides practical assistance on how excellence can be achieved.

Having listened to the experiences of people who use services and their families, we believe it is essential that, if Transforming Care is going to deliver real change, there has to be a very significant...

Employment is Everyone’s Business is a project delivered by NDTi with BASE (British Associate for Supported Employment) and funded through the Department for Education’s (DfE) grant programme.

Reasonably Adjusted? published in 2012, describes the reasonable adjustments mental health services were putting in place for people with learning disabilities and people with autism. There were pockets of imaginative and positive practice by local...

The Health Equality Framework (HEF) is) a freely available outcomes-based tool to help commissioners, providers, people with learning disabilities and their families understand the impact and effectiveness of health and social care services.

The Winterbourne scandal has yet again focused attention on services for people who have behaviours that challenge services. For the NDTi, this has been an area of special interest over many years.

NDTi has substantial experience and a proven track record of specialist experience in independent strategic review, research, policy development, evaluation and change support. We work alongside stakeholders including people who use services to deliver real...

“Without NDTi we wouldn't have had this Autism Strategy” – Autism service user representative, Lincolnshire

Recent national policy and guidance promises to transform the lives of people living with autism and autistic spectrum disorders. Think Autism (2014), the refreshed National Autism Strategy, set out 15 priority action areas including social...

Adult social care is facing significant challenges with the likelihood of increased demand and expectation at a time of financial pressures, savings targets and reduced capacity in many areas.

This project, funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, looks to ensure the voices of disabled and older people and their families are heard. It facilitated a better understanding of advocacy, co-production in mental health and...

The NDTi were commissioned by the Winterbourne View Joint Improvement Programme (WVJIP) to run a series of workshops across the country to support local areas to reduce the number of people in in-patient units, and...

This programme is for independent and voluntary sector providers of locked residential rehabilitation services for people with mental health issues or learning disabilities living in the East Midlands.

The Department for Education (DfE) and the Council for Disabled Children (CDC) have commissioned NDTi to evaluate the Independent Support Programme.

In the transition from Children and Young People's services to adult services, employment outcomes for young people with mental health problems often receive less attention than other outcomes (including social care and health outcomes).

Following eight years’ of operation, Dorset Partnership for Older People Projects (POPP) commissioned NDTi to carry out some research to consider the economic value of their community led preventative approach to working with older people...

How can local authority commissioners work with the care home sector to ensure older people consistently receive high-quality, relationship-centred care?

Commissioning employment: A brief review tool for commissioners.

An NDTi study into employment supports identified that there was limited evidence of people using their social care Personal Budget (PB) to support them to gain or retain paid work (click here to read more).

NDTi was commissioned by Outside the Box to bring together existing evidence and practice on Self-Directed Support for people with mental health problems to ensure Self-Directed Support in Scotland is equally available to people with...

Most care/support services, local authorities, health bodies and community agencies aim to promote meaningful community inclusion by all people. However, for many disabled and older people and their families this remains a distant aspiration. Statements...

The Better Lives Project from Dimensions UK on Vimeo. The Families and Personalisation Project is about helping family carers to understand what personalisation is really about, and building their support for using it as a...

NDTi Workshops Our community inclusion workshops can be generic or focused on a particular group of people – for example older people, people with learning disabilities and people with mental health problem. We can work...

Following on from a discussion paper on the subject, the NDTi has explored how the mental health payment system is being linked with the personalisation agenda to provide more individualised care and support for people...

Skills for Care initiated a Neighbourhood Workforce Planning & Community Skills Development programme, and NDTi were working with 3 early adopter sites in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, to help capture the learning from the...

NDTi and Innovations in Dementia led this three year project which took place in four areas of the South of England and was funded by the Department of Health’s Innovation Excellence and Service Development fund...

A major strand of NDTi work is to support local services to have the skills and knowledge to support everyone in their local communities – not matter how complex their needs. People should not have...

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation have published a report on older people's voice, choice and control. This report was written by NDTi in conjunction with an excellent Advisory Board.

This guide on coproduction with older people sets out seven principles to help local authorities and their partners, including local communities, work together and improve older people’s influence at all levels of service commissioning and...