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.
There are a couple of networks associated with our Small Supports work: one for providers and another for commissioners.
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).
Small supports organisations have a lot in common; here are nine key characteristics they share.
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).
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.
Conversations have reflected a common view that commissioning, as it currently exists, has a number of common issues:
As part of our Community Inclusion work, we explored the approaches and tools that can ensure older people and people with learning disabilities can be connected and contribute to their local communities.
Our team, led by our highly skilled Autistic Associates, carry out environmental sensory assessments in hospitals.
NDTi has been collaborating with ASDAN to review and modernise their transition modules to encompass the Preparing for Adulthood outcomes.
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