News (Change & Development)

What is advocacy? Gail Petty, our advocacy and rights lead, introduces this year’s Advocacy Awareness Week.

Advocacy lead, Gail Petty, writes about the findings from a major new research report which reviews advocacy for people with learning disabilities and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health settings.

Harry Georgiou, youth advisory and coproduction assistant at DFN Project SEARCH, recently teamed up with NDTi's Thomas Henley to create a film which captures young people's experiences of work.

Thanks to everyone who attended our webinar “A Hole in My Bucket?” – how spending decisions impact wealth and wellbeing of our communities. Slides can be found here and downloaded from this page.

Colleagues from our Small Supports programme recently hosted some visitors from Slovenia who are doing similar work.

We’d love to hear more about the fantastic work you’re doing to enable people with learning disabilities to find and stay in paid employment.

In this blog, research and evaluation officer Lauren Blood, talks about our recent research on homelessness and neurodiversity.

Upholding and protecting human rights is central to almost everything we work on. It plays a key role in our organisational strategy. In this blog Annie Smith explains why.

Our Small Supports programme is hosting a series of lunchtime webinars in the Autumn.

We want to know your thoughts about creating a quality kitemark for Supported Internships (survey open until 31 July 2023).