Small Supports

"Where, after all, do human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

The Partnership

The Small Supports partnership is between Beyond Limits, C-Change, NDTi, Positive Support for You and Local Government Association. This programme is generously supported by NHS England. We are working with local areas to help them create the best environment for small supports to emerge and flourish and with existing and emerging small supports organisations to develop and share great ways of working. The partners are not seeking to establish or grow their own support activity.

More Information

You can find links to further information on our website in 'Related Pages' below or under 'Useful Links'. Other helpful resources are:

• Small Supports in Time of Crisis: this podcast series explore how individually designed and led, community-based support worked to protect both people's health and human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• A Paper to Challenge and Inform Transforming Care Partnerships: this paper thinks about people with learning disabilities and/or autism who are living in secure settings (hospitals or Assessment and Treatment Units).
• Risky Business: the Cost of Human Life: in this blog, Sam Smith from C-Change writes about how the pandemic exposed the hidden cost of a system that has failed to take account of human worth.
• After the Storm: Hope in Adversity: a blog by Sam Smith about how COVID-19 shone a spotlight on issues that were known to exist but were not given prominent national focus.
• Bending the Arc: a blog by Sam Smith to suggest possible ways to navigate through the complexity of the challenges faced by social care.