Equal lives

We promote equal life opportunities for all ages, supporting inclusion, health equality, housing, employment, relationships and active roles in community life.

Our work

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Internships Work

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Everything you need to know about supported internships for young people aged 16-24.
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Time to Talk Next Steps

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Free, personalised support helping 16–25 year-olds with additional support needs build confidence, explore goals, and plan for the future. No diagnosis or labels required.
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Small Supports

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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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Preparing for Adulthood

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Tailored support for local areas to improve transitions into adulthood through coproduction, system change, training, and peer-led research and evaluation. And, access a wide range of resources.
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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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Community Led Support

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Find out how this system wide, strengths based way of delivering social care is impacting local areas.
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Advocacy

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Explore our work across the independent advocacy sector, including the advocacy quality performance mark and advocacy network.
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Brighter Futures

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Small, local, bespoke support for young people with complicated lives as they move into adulthood.
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Improving outcomes for young people moving into adulthood

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A range of support to help commissioners create seamless, person‑centred pathways into adulthood.
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Young Inclusion Champions

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Find out how young disabled people are working to design and lead work for a more inclusive society.
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Home, Family, Community

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This programme of work, co-designed by the five Meeting centres in Angus, local authority and health partners and people and families with lived experience will start out by thinking through what differences there are to past work on small supports.

Commission Time to Talk Next Steps

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Rights-based transition support for young people aged 16-25. Commissioning options for local authorities, ICBs and education providers.

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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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Next Generation leadership programme

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An immersive programme for bold, values driven leaders in learning disability, autism and advocacy services which drives real change through developing strategic skills, resilience and inclusive leadership.
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Leading together

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A bold, values-driven leadership programme for public sector and community teams which builds resilience, authenticity, and influence through immersive learning, peer support, and human rights-based approaches to change.
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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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Learning together: Inclusive research and evaluation training

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A training programme for organisations working with people with lived experience. This inclusive training builds practical research and evaluation skills to help people with lived experience shape projects, influence change, and amplify voices in health, care, and community services.
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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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Leading Change in SEND and AP

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A strategic leadership programme for SEND/AP leads which builds confidence, consistency, and impact through immersive learning, peer support, and system-wide collaboration.
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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.

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