Latest projects

This project, funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, looks to ensure the voices of disabled and older people and their families are heard. It facilitated a better understanding of advocacy, co-production in mental health and...

The NDTi were commissioned by the Winterbourne View Joint Improvement Programme (WVJIP) to run a series of workshops across the country to support local areas to reduce the number of people in in-patient units, and...

This programme is for independent and voluntary sector providers of locked residential rehabilitation services for people with mental health issues or learning disabilities living in the East Midlands.

The Department for Education (DfE) and the Council for Disabled Children (CDC) have commissioned NDTi to evaluate the Independent Support Programme.

Following eight years’ of operation, Dorset Partnership for Older People Projects (POPP) commissioned NDTi to carry out some research to consider the economic value of their community led preventative approach to working with older people.

How can local authority commissioners work with the care home sector to ensure older people consistently receive high-quality, relationship-centred care?

NDTi has completed, for the SSCR, an investigation into investment and outcomes in employment support for disabled people.

NDTi is responsible for the delivery of the Advocacy Quality Performance Mark (QPM), the only Quality Mark for organisations offering independent advocacy. The QPM is only awarded to organisations who can demonstrate that they provide...

An NDTi study into employment supports identified that there was limited evidence of people using their social care Personal Budget (PB) to support them to gain or retain paid work (click here to read more)....

NDTi was commissioned by Outside the Box to bring together existing evidence and practice on Self-Directed Support for people with mental health problems to ensure Self-Directed Support in Scotland is equally available to people with mental health problems.