
Empowering rights through the Mental Health Bill
As we start the new year our team is reflecting on the introduction of new mental health legislation. We share some thoughts below.
Small Supports – Better Lives
Developing new Small Support organisations that provide person-centred support without compromise.
A programme of work funded in part by NHS England that sets out to seed and set-up new Small Support organisations across England to support people with complicated lives and support needs to live in the community.
The Small Supports programme is a partnership of established Small Support organisations, led and hosted by NDTi. Our partners include
Beyond Limits, C-Change, Positive Support for You with the Local Government Association. We work with local areas to support them in establishing a new local offer of support.
Our Living Library is a growing collection of stories from people, their family members and those who support them about what it means to be supported by a Small Support organisation. Follow the link, pull out a virtual book and read, listen, or watch.
Beyond Limits has been working in Plymouth since 2012; this report explores the long-term impact of a Small Supports organisation on the lives of those they work alongside and support, as well as the economic impact across the local services.
Hear from Mark about what support from a new small support organisation has meant to him.
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.
Doreen Kelly, Beyond Limits explains how 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.
If you have any questions, please email Nic Crosby, programme Lead
If you're interested in finding out more about what it takes to set up a Small Support organisation, please register your interest and details here.
Small Supports Webinars - NDTi
These Lunchtime Sessions from the Small Supports Programme are bite-sized sessions exploring some of the different aspects of Small Supports organisations, including sharing new research and thinking
As we start the new year our team is reflecting on the introduction of new mental health legislation. We share some thoughts below.
We're delighted to be collaborating with Shared Lives Plus and Community Catalysts on a campaign to highlight a range of proven approaches that are reshaping conversations about social care. Better Now focuses on the transformative...
Dr Vicky Mason-Angelow, research and evaluation manager at NDTi, shares insights from a study into the impact of Small Supports organisations.
Your vote counts. Two of our programmes have been shortlisted for an award: Small Supports for a service delivery award. The evaluation of Community Led Support, with the University of Birmingham, for a research and...
Better is possible now is a shared call to action from NDTi, Community Catalysts and Shared Lives Plus spotlighting existing models that are already working.
Jenny Pitts, programme lead for the Community Led Support programme, reflects on her own learning from the last decade and what it really takes for local areas to make a success of embedding a strengths...
The Community Led Support spring festival is here for another year! It’s free, it’s online, on 15-16 May and it’s open to anyone with an interest in strengths based, community led approaches to social care...
Starting on World Human Rights Day, 10 December 2023, our festive campaign features the 12 days of human rights. Human rights are non-negotiable and make sure that people are treated with dignity, respect, fairness and...
As part of our seasonal 12 days of human rights campaign, Nic Crosby, Lyn Griffiths and Amanda Nally share their thoughts around person centred planning. 12 days of human rights, day 2: Person centred planning...
Amanda Nally, Community Led Support (CLS) development lead, writes about the recent annual gathering in Manchester.
This report is a summary of what the research and evidence tell us about why young people with learning disabilities and/or autistic young people are in residential placements and what can be done to address...
A Deep Dive into the Plymouth Small Supports Story This report by Mike Richardson and Dr. Victoria Mason-Angelow from NDTi is about The Life and Economic Impact of Small Support Provision. Beyond Limits, a Small...
In 2024 we published an independent report of a two-year study undertaken by a collaboration of universities, and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), on the impact of Community Led...
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.
A report that takes a closer look at the issues which continue to challenge the system, exploring what it takes to support young people with PMLD labels to have good lives and how these approaches...
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?
The charter draws on the findings from two research projects. The first carried out by the Tizard Centre and the second by NDTi and My Life My Choice. Both show how important having a relationship...
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