
Blog: Breaking through at 9 3/4 years
Amanda Nally, Community Led Support (CLS) development lead, writes about the recent annual gathering in Manchester.
These pressures include changing expectations of people who use services (usually aspirational, sometimes generational, sometimes short breaks focused); a real desire to give people more choice and control over the services and support they receive; a policy focus on working more closely with communities, providing support to people who have and pool individual budgets; and, of course, funding pressures.
Exploring these pressures in more detail highlights a number of fundamental issues and opportunities:
Whilst the detail for each ‘client’ group and for each kind of organisation (voluntary, charitable, statutory) may be different, these pressures and opportunities are common. The answers will be too. Working together with colleagues, people using services, and communities from the whole sector locally will help ensure the future day time support offered is seamless and robust enough to last.
We know that there are good people providing and commissioning day time supports, and that there are useful working practice and tools. However, too many of these people are working in isolation and so don’t have the time for creative thinking, idea sharing and development opportunities. Some face opposition; others, a competitive environment.
NDTi works with local providers, commissioners and others to design and deliver bespoke reviews, development programmes, change management, and workforce development. We tailor the support we offer to the context and needs of the area, with a view to ensuring that local support and provision enables the people you support to live good and connected lives in their own communities.
Amanda Nally, Community Led Support (CLS) development lead, writes about the recent annual gathering in Manchester.
We’ve been working alongside Children in Scotland and Contact on a pilot for Time to Talk Next Steps Scotland. This blog from Children in Scotland’s Head of Services, Billy Anderson, reflects on the past year’s...
Our annual two day spring festival returns for another year on 16 and 17 May. The festival is hosted by NDTi's Community Led Support network and, for the first time, has been opened up to...
To mark Autism Acceptance Week, we've produced a series of short films on making reasonable adjustments.
Mike Richardson, Community Led Support Site Lead and data specialist, writes about some of the thinking behind our new Valuing Community Led Support report.
Paul Marshall, CEO of NDTi, writes about his reflections on the Archbishops’ Commission and House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee reports.
What's your wish for the NHS? We asked the NHS Older People's Sounding Board what they thought and this is what they said.
Bury Council want to make sure that people with learning disabilities have access to opportunities that will help them grow and live their best lives with positive links to their community, so they have asked...
NDTi, in partnership with Children in Scotland and Contact are to launch Time to Talk Next Steps Scotland after receiving funding to explore what works to support young people with additional needs as they transition...
Learning from the Model City London Project. How the project achieved extraordinary success in collaboration and keeping communities connected and engaged in the Sport for Good initiative across three London boroughs, Hounslow, Haringey and Barking.
We are sharing work to evaluate and research the impact and ongoing development of small local bespoke support for people with complicated and very individual support needs. Three new pieces of work, shared online in...
This report covers in depth research about advocacy for people with a learning disability and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health, learning disability or autism specialist hospitals.
Resources for health and care professionals, detailing the “Whole Family Approach” to Person Centred Care.
This report presents details of the evaluation of the Small Supports programme, delivered in partnership between NDTi, Beyond Limits, C-Change and Positive Support for You, funded by NHS England and the Local Government Association. The...
NHS 111 First When the NHS 111 first campaign launched, we at the Valuing People Alliance (NDTi, LDE and BILD) decided we wanted to know what impact this might have on people with learning disabilities...
Adjusted care resources to support health and care workers
Improved wellbeing, reduced social isolation, a better place to grow older and reduced costs to health and social care.
In Paper 6a we introduced the first of two case studies exploring the important question: Does community led support deliver better outcomes for the same or less resource?
NDTi’s research and evaluation team conducted an evaluation of the Leadership Programme, which aims to provide an independent assessment of the effectiveness of the programme against its stated objectives.
This paper, written by NDTi Associate Edana Minghella, provides an overview of the policy, issues and costs (to the person themselves as well as the public purse) associated with out of area placements for adults...
Madeline Cooper
Email: Madeline.Cooper@ndti.org.uk
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