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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

Shared Lives Intermediate Care is a pilot programme that aimed to develop Shared Lives as a ‘home from hospital’ service for older people. It offered short term support in a family home to people who are well enough to leave hospital but are unable to return to their home/live independently.

This learning will be of interest to everybody involved with local Carers’ Partnerships at a strategic level, including carers themselves.

The framework enables conversations between a range of people and organisations (Local Authorities, Health Commissioners and Providers, the Third Sector -including Carers organisations and carers), to discuss, plan and assess local progress in identifying and supporting carers including implementing the Carer’s elements of the Care Act (2014).

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.

The value of building community capacity to social care is now widely recognised. Despite this acceptance, and a growing body of work to support development, its spread is uneven with pockets of promising practice rather than large-scale change.

John in Somerset talks about how community led support works in practice.

Our work is led and shaped by Autistic Experts and Associates lived and professional experience of neurodiversity which is still very much misunderstood in health, social care and education settings.

We've helped over 35 local areas across England, Wales and Scotland transform how they deliver adult social care. It's a different way of working which maximises the strengths and community connections of people locally.