What are small supports?
Small supports organisations have a lot in common; here are nine key characteristics they share.
This programme is generously supported by NHS England.
Small supports organisations have a lot in common; here are nine key characteristics they share.
Background 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...
If not now, when? And if not us – who?
Before March, Social Work (SW) and Occupational Therapy (OT) teams in West Sussex were on a phased roll out of community led support through their ‘Supporting Lives, Connecting People’ programme.
For some people using social care support, the pandemic has meant a loss, or threatened loss, of rights, wellbeing and safety. But it doesn’t have to be this way. This series explores how individually designed...
‘The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice’Martin Luther King Jr.
Through our Community Led Support (CLS) programme we are working with over 30 areas across the UK to transform the way they support people. Covid-19 has inevitably changed things but what has been the impact...
Covid-19 has shone a spotlight on issues that were known to exist but were not given prominent national focus. The implications of the pandemic, played out in the full glare of publicity, has cast a...
Introducing Community Led Support’s Evidence & Learning Briefing PapersIn these surreal, unpredictable, and troubling times it may seem strange publishing these papers from the Community Led Support Programme, but arguably they are more important now...
How meeting through Shared Lives led Andy and James to form 'Local Social', a community interest company, that has changed both their lives.Author: Andy Cooke
Interview with Christine Denovan talking about how the Community Led Support programme is helping Somerset to meet the changing needs of people who need support in our communities.
An interview, following last night's Panorama Part 2 Crisis in Care, with Adult Social Care Commissioner Pip Cannons on the changes that are liberating the care and support now being offered in Somerset communities.
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:
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"
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.
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 autism whose behaviours challenge funded by NHSE.
A new report published today by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shares the findings of an evaluation undertaken by NDTi to examine the improvements Essex County Council made to the commissioning of its care home services...
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