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Join the Small Supports Programme 2021/22 to develop ways of offering uniquely person-centred, community-based and value-for-money supports developed with, for and around each person.

To Establish Small, Community-Based Organisations

Aimed at new and emerging talent to lead services for people with a learning disability. Do you work in a health or social care setting? Are you courageous, values-based and looking for ways to tackle the challenges ahead?

A three-year programme to support young people with additional needs to build confidence, provide motivation and make plans for the future.

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.

Application Information For Advocacy & Health Funded Support Programme 2021

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.

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).