Institutions are No Solution

Institutions are No Solution; in conversation with Simone Aspis, Lucy Bowerman, Ava McAuley and Pam Bebbington, members of the Free Our People campaign, a disabled people’s led campaign to end the institutionalisation of people in the UK. This is our second podcast in this Autumn Foundations series from the Small Supports programme.
The Free Our People Now project aims to help autistic people and people with learning difficulties, with lived experience of the psychiatric system, to have a voice and advocate for urgent change, so Autistic people and people with learning difficulties can live in their own homes rather than in hospitals.
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Small Supports

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Small Supports: Podcast series

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.

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What makes for good support?

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In this fourth episode in our Autumn podcast series, Nic Crosby talks with Alexis Quinn and Tricia Nicoll, about what makes for good support? A conversation heavily shaped by personal and family experience.

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In this third episode of the Autumn podcast Foundations series, from the Small Supports programme, Nic Crosby, is in conversation with Charli Clement, Kirsten Peebles, and Sam Smith, Human Rights experts.

Back to the Future: The history and future of the Small Supports programme

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In this special Foundations series from the Small Supports programme, Nic Crosby talks about the history and the future of Small Supports, with Simon Duffy, Citizen Network.

Institutions are No Solution

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What makes for good support?

Human rights and Coproduction

Back to the Future: The history and future of the Small Supports programme