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.
NDTi has completed the most comprehensive research ever into the cost effectiveness of local authority and NHS commissioned employment supports for people with learning disabilities and people with mental health conditions. Funded by the National...
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...
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.
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 shift in the style and availability of support for people with learning disabilities.
The Community Led Support (CLS) programme supports Health and Social Care Partnerships in Scotland to put their work right at the heart of communities, using the ethos of the Integration agenda as a means to...
The core principles of co-production as described by the Social Care Institute for Excellence....
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 services – but little sharing or copying of good ideas.
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