Adult social care and support

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Community Led Support

Programme
Find out how this system wide, strengths based way of delivering social care is impacting local areas.
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Care (Education) and Treatment Reviews

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Independent, person-centred reviews helping people get the right support, reduce hospital stays, and improve care and outcomes.
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Small Supports

Programme
We work in with local systems to develop small, bespoke, person-led support organisations that enable people with complicated lives to thrive in their own communities.

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Bespoke, local, and person-centred

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Whether you are looking at the ICB area programme of work or one focused on your local authority area, we can support you in taking up the challenge of market shaping and setting out to develop support that can and will ensure people are moved home, and the numbers being sent out of the area are continually reduced.
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Becoming a Director of Adult Social Services (DASS)

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A tailored leadership programme for aspiring DASSs, building resilience, political savvy, and strategic impact through expert-led workshops, peer support, and immersive learning experiences.
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See the person

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Develop the skills to deliver truly person centred care by challenging bias, embracing values and seeing the human behind the label.
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Days to Communities

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A change and innovation programme for day service change makers and community thought leaders.
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Leading and developing strengths based cultures

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A one-day workshop for health and care leaders to build authentic, strengths-based cultures that empower teams, improve practice, and embed person-centred values across services.
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Embedding strengths based approaches

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A suite of online, interactive workshops that support the application of strengths-based, community led approaches.

Tools and resources

Information sharing training

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This training equips teams with the practical skills to share information openly, listen with intent, and foster genuine dialogue.

Making coproduction part of your how

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This exciting programme of support is for organisations ready to use coproduction to drive transformation.

Making coproduction part of who you are

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This immersive experience helps teams understand the foundations of coproduction and build practical plans for embedding it in their work.
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A local and person-centred future: Small Supports

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A series of online events sharing learning, discussion, and hope. These international events were held online in Autumn 2025.
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Small Supports: Podcast series

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Our Autumn 2025 podcast series featured many great conversations, covering all aspects of Small Supports, including the roots and foundations of Small Supports, people with lived experience of institutionalisation, human rights, coproduction, and what makes for good support.

Resources for Carers

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A range of resources for carers and carers' organisations.
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Small Supports 2022-2025

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Discover how NHS England funding helped seed nine new Small Support organisations, with more to come, plus reports, resources, and peer network insights.
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Small Supports: The need for a bespoke solution

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A range of research, webinar recordings and articles on person-centred support solutions for people in secure, forensic, and mental health in-patient units.

Building Bridges: Social prescribing with people with learning disabilities and autistic people

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Research gathering the experiences of people with learning disabilities and autistic people who had experienced social prescribing and those working as social prescribers or link workers

Coproduction case studies

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Case studies illustrating ways in which Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) or Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) have worked together with local people with lived experience and the voluntary sector.
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Ageing and Autism: A BIG conversation

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These conversation starters are the result of a space we created for older autistic people to share their worries and their hopes.
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Rural Wisdom

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These resources are from a 2021 lottery funded project to share learning across rural communities in Scotland and Wales.

Individual resources

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More than 1,000 conversations reveal early insights from Qrios

September 8, 2026
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Discover early insights that evidence wellbeing pressures, the value of prevention and how local areas can invest where it matters most.
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Small is Beautiful

Resource
Event
Mon 9 Nov, 2026 - 12:00pm
Location: Online
Price: Free
Audience: Family members, providers, commissioners, community organisations, policymakers
A series of online discussions about Small Supports and why it is important to develop support services that are based in local communities.

Why inclusion matters more than ever

August 25, 2026
Resource
Blog
As hard-won gains in personalisation come under pressure, David Brindle makes the case for inclusion and system change.
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Creating Brighter Futures

August 21, 2026
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NewsEvaluation and learning
New insights from a national roundtable discussion on supporting young people with complex needs to thrive in adulthood.
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Launching our new strategy at a defining moment for social care

August 6, 2026
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As social care reform takes centre stage, discover how our new strategy is driving inclusion, voice and system change.
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Applications: Home Family Community

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Welcome to the application information for Home Family Community
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Supporting Commissioners to help people thrive in their communities

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A step backwards on rights: Our response to the Supreme Court ruling

June 4, 2026
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Our response to the 2 June ruling, warning of risks to rights, safeguards and independent advocacy for people and families.
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Small Supports Network warns of escalating crisis for small social care providers

April 23, 2026
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New ARC evidence reveals funding gap threatening small, community-based social care organisations.
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From buildings to belonging

March 10, 2026
Resource
Blog
Lyn Griffiths examines why changing day services is still so difficult and what's needed to overcome those barriers.

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