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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?

In this Paper, we focus on Scottish Borders - an established CLS site with good data literacy and a realistic approach to collecting and using different sources of evidence - to look at what we know is changing as a result of their local approach and what can be learnt from this.

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.

When the audit of the Coronavirus crisis is compiled, it will surely show that many of the neighbourhoods that have responded best to people’s needs are those where local agencies had previously invested in strengths-based practice.

This paper is the first in a series of six briefings produced by the CLS Evidence & Learning Team, to share findings and lessons from the second major round up of data, stories, evaluation findings and programme lessons exploring the impacts of community led support across the UK.

The Programme has dramatically increased from 11 to 27 diverse areas across Scotland, England and Wales. A common feature is their focus on achieving change in public services based on a better understanding of each place, and a stronger relationship with local people.

CLS depends on knowing what works and doesn’t work in each place, what other related developments are already in place (such as Local Area Coordination, social prescribers and wellbeing coordinators), who the local players are right across the system (including in the community) and how best to work respectfully alongside them.

Capturing, sharing and learning from change stories is a key component of the Evidence & Learning activities taking place within and across all CLS sites.

Our new report, published today, details how 27 UK local authorities and health and social care partnerships who are part of the Community Led Support Programme have built strong relationships with their communities to improve the speed and effectiveness of support and care available within their local communities.

Scotland shares many of the same opportunities and challenges with the rest of the UK including rising demand for services, decreasing budgets, increasing expectations and workforce challenges