Time to Talk Next Steps
A three-year programme to support young people with additional needs to build confidence, provide motivation and make plans for the future.
Latest projects
Exploring the role of learning disability nurses in in-patient settings
NDTi have been asked by the NHS England and Improvement (NHSEI) Learning Disability Team, to undertake a piece of exploratory work to garner greater understanding of the role learning disability nurses have in in-patient settings in England.
New Advocacy & Health Funded Support Training Programme
Application Information For Advocacy & Health Funded Support Programme 2021
Evaluation of Reconnections by Independent Age
NDTi were commissioned to undertake an evaluation of the Reconnections pilot to look at the impact of the service and to generate learning about the potential development of the model.
Developing Environments for Small Supports to Emerge & Flourish
A commissioning and procurement system has developed which tends to favour larger providers and often those who operate out of area and base their delivery around perceived behaviours and risk; traditional approaches to ‘market development’ have done little to challenge this.
Small Supports Networks
There are a couple of networks associated with our Small Supports work: one for providers and another for commissioners.
Background to Small Supports Activity
Our Small Supports activity is about thinking and working with people with learning disabilities and/or autism who have ‘hefty reputations’ (to borrow a phrase to describe people who are burdened by the reputations they have been given because of behaviours, reactions, support requirements and large funding packages).
What are Small Supports?
Small supports organisations have a lot in common; here are nine key characteristics they share.
Coronavirus and people with learning disabilities
UK Research and Innovation have funded a study to find out the experiences of the coronavirus pandemic for people with learning disabilities. The research is being led by Professor Richard Hastings (University of Warwick) and Professor Chris Hatton (Manchester Metropolitan University).
Evaluation of the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training in Learning Disability and Autism
The National Development Team for inclusion, in partnership with My Life My Choice and Bemix have been chosen by Health Education England, Skills for Care and the Department of Health and Social care to be the evaluation partner for the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Learning Disability and Autism Training trial.