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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.
Related Pages
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What are Small Supports?
Small supports organisations have a lot in common; here are nine key characteristics they share.
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Background to Small Supports Activity
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...
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Small Supports Networks
There are a couple of networks associated with our Small Supports programme: one for providers and another for commissioners.
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Developing Environments for Small Supports to Emerge & Flourish
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’...
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Exceptional People Needed
To Establish Small, Community-Based Organisations
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CLS Hero: Billie Hassan
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Related Resources
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Small Supports Evaluation reports
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...
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Paper 6b: Lessons from implementing CLS in Scottish Borders
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?
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SEND Leadership Programme 2019-2020 Evaluation
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.
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Shared Lives Intermediate Care
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...
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Supporting Carers: Sharing Best Practice in Integrated Approaches to Support
This learning will be of interest to everybody involved with local Carers’ Partnerships at a strategic level, including carers themselves.
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Better Local Support for Carers: A Framework For Good Practice
The purpose of this framework is to help local areas implement best practice in supporting carers.
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Building Community Capacity: Economic Case Studies
A review of economic evaluations and studies that have been conducted on seven approaches to building community capacity:
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Video: Somerset Community Connect - Community Led Support
John in Somerset talks about how community led support works in practice. "There are people out there to help you in the community...It's made our life a little bit easier"
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Alliance Commissioning and Coproduction in Mental Health
This paper uses published material, learning from commissioners, providers and people with lived experience, and our own knowledge and experience, to discuss the benefits and challenges of alliance commissioning and coproduction in mental health.
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Guide for commissioners of services for children and young people who challenge services
This guidance has been written following a project to develop a review of the commissioning arrangements for children and young people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people whose behaviours challenge funded by NHSE.
Contact Details
Bill Love
Tel: 01225 255 268
Email: bill.love@ndti.org.uk