
Blog: Breaking through at 9 3/4 years
Amanda Nally, Community Led Support (CLS) development lead, writes about the recent annual gathering in Manchester.
Small Supports – Better Lives
The Small Supports Partnership is an NDTi led consortium of established small supports leaders and organisations (Beyond Limits, C-Change, Positive Support for You) with the Local Government Association (LGA).
Sam Smith from C-Change explains how human rights explain 'what good looks like' and how we have to set these rights at the heart of everything we do.
Dave Barras, Associate, Positive Support for You
Small support organisations are centred on the person and their loved ones, their story, their people, their likes, dreams, and dislikes...
Small Support organisations stick with the person through good times and difficult times; they build trusting, respectful and reliable relationships with the person they support and with each other.
Centred on human rights, being person-centred and building long-term support for a person. This programme came about due to the lack of evident improvement in support developed by both the Transforming Care and Building the Right Support programmes.
Here is a recording of an hour-long information session with Dave Barras and Nic Crosby explaining more about Small Support organisations and the programme of work. Download the slides that accompanied the event here.
If you have any questions, would like to find out more …if you are from an interested area or organisation, are a family member or are simply interested in finding out more about what it takes to set up a small support organisation, then email Nic Crosby, programme Lead
Amanda Nally, Community Led Support (CLS) development lead, writes about the recent annual gathering in Manchester.
Thanks to everyone who attended our webinar on 19 October 2023. “A Hole in My Bucket?” – how spending decisions impact wealth and wellbeing of our communities Slides can be found here and downloaded from...
Colleagues from our Small Supports programme recently hosted some visitors from Slovenia who are doing similar work.
Our Small Supports programme is hosting a series of lunchtime webinars in the Autumn.
Different languages, different histories, different cultures but all with the same challenges! Nic Crosby, Small Supports Programme Lead, reflects and compares some of the challenges across different countries in setting up small supports that enable...
To mark the 75th birthday of the NHS, we're sharing a short film from expert by experience and NDTi Associate, Rachel Turner. Rachel describes how she got involved in a piece of research on training...
Annie Smith, Delivery Lead for Community Led Support (CLS), tells us about some of the highlights from this year’s CLS annual Spring Festival.
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...
We’ve just launched a brand new series of half day workshops on strengths-based approaches for anyone working in the social care and health sector.
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.
A free self-assessment toolkit to help you assess and manage your team's response to risk.
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...
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.
Shared Lives Plus commissioned NDTi to conduct the evaluation of the Shared Lives intermediate care pilot programme. The main purpose was to look at the impact of the programme for people who are ready to...
This learning will be of interest to everybody involved with local Carers’ Partnerships at a strategic level, including carers themselves.
The purpose of this framework is to help local areas implement best practice in supporting carers.
A review of economic evaluations and studies that have been conducted on seven approaches to building community capacity:
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