Small Supports Lunchtime Sessions 2025

30 January 2025: People Speak

12-1pm, register your place here

Further instalments from the Living Library and listening to what people are saying; a check-in for all of us and the never-ending challenge to challenge, act and support, with Sam Smith, C-Change Scotland and Nic Crosby, Programme Lead - Small Supports Programme.

27 February 2025: Reducing Restrictive Practice in the Community

12-1pm, register your place here

Alexis Quinn (Restraint Reduction Network) joins Nic Crosby (NDTi) to talk about Restraint reduction and how the person-centred practice of Small Supports organisations and the focus on relationships provide a really strong blueprint for the long-term elimination of restrictive practice.

27 March 2025: Small Supports a Challenge or a Solution for Commissioners?

12-1pm, register your place here

Helen Toker-Lester (NDTi Associate) and Steve Bardsley (Leeds City Council) discuss far from being negative, Small Supports provides commissioners with the opportunity to start re-shaping their market with an emphasis on local and bespoke.

1 May 2025: Clinicians and Small Supports

Fiona Ritchie (NDTi Associate), with a Clinician guest (TBC), and Nic Crosby (NDTi) will discuss the opportunity Small Supports present Multi-Disciplinary Teams to deliver a truly person-centred discharge to support that will stick with the person through thick and thin.

12-1pm, register your place here

22 May 2025: Human Rights and Small Supports – The Foundation of everything we do

12-1pm, register your place here

Kirsten Peebles and Charli Clement (NDTi and people with lived experience) will talk about their work in delivering human rights training, the importance of human rights for small support organisations and getting it right by each person they support.

26 June 2025: Building a Bridge – Updates and new work to support young people and those under 18

12-1pm, register your place here

We will revisit the work shared in November 2024, continue the discussion and share further work highlighting the positive opportunities for developing local non-profit small support organisations for young people. With Nic Crosby (NDTi) and Richard Kirkup, Children and Young People Programme Lead (NDTi).