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explores how individually designed and led, community-based supports have worked to protect both people’s health and human rights.

‘The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice’. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous quote is full of optimism, a sense that progress is inevitable. The notion that a hopeful future of greater equality, health and wellbeing is somehow preordained.

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 of CLS on this?

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 sharper light on issues of poverty, disability, minority ethnic communities and the unequal distribution of caring responsibilities.

Introducing Community Led Support’s Evidence & Learning Briefing Papers. In 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 than ever.

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.