CLS Spring Festival 2024
An annual opportunity to learn from members of the Community Led Support network around the UK.
An annual opportunity to learn from members of the Community Led Support network around the UK.
Our annual two day festival returns for another year on 16 and 17 May. The festival is hosted by NDTi's Community Led Support network and brings together an exciting range of free, short online opportunities to hear about strengths-based care and support.
Mike Richardson, Community Led Support Site lead and data specialist, writes about some of the thinking behind our new Valuing Community Led Support report.
Paul Marshall, CEO of NDTi, writes about his reflections on the Archbishops’ Commission and House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee reports.
Small Supports evaluation reports
All this changed with the pandemic lockdown ... recent circumstances in some instances ‘turbo charged’ the move to a strengths based culture of practice.
Conversations have reflected a common view that commissioning, as it currently exists, has a number of common issues:
Positive change that results in better lives for people does not just happen. It can be complex and it will usually takes time and commitment if the desired outcomes are to be achieved.
Working across England, Wales and Scotland, our Community Led Support (CLS) programme involves a network of over 30 statutory organisations with responsibility for adult social care working with their partners and communities to design and deliver different ways of working which maximise the strengths and community connections of people locally.
In our work with people who commission, provide, fund and use day time services it is clear that they face common and growing core pressures.
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