People’s voices

We centre people’s voices in every action, ensuring living experience shapes support, services, and policy through inclusive partnerships and meaningful leadership.

Our work

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Time to Talk Next Steps

Programme
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

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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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

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

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

Project
Small, local, bespoke support for young people with complicated lives as they move into adulthood.
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Young Inclusion Champions

Project
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

Project
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

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

Project
Discover how we are working in partnership with the Electoral Commission to make sure young people with additional support needs have an equal voice in democracy.
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Development support

Project
Helping organisations move from good intentions to meaningful involvement through insight, impact and change.
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Youth-led conversations

Project
Support in schools: A youth-led conversation about the future of education

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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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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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