Advocacy Awareness Week 2025
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News
Beyond late intervention
Alice McColl explores how her work with young disabled adults has become a beacon of hope towards change.
Registrations open for Community Led Support spring festival
Free series of online webinars, 22-23 May 2025. Hear about a range of tools, approaches and research on strengths-based practice.
BBC investigation reveals disturbing failings in school seclusion practices for autistic pupils
Read about the investigation and the views of our team on what needs to change.
Small Supports, big changes: Transforming lives in Leeds
What happens when you reimagine adult social support from the ground up? Dr Vicky Mason-Angelow shares what happened in Leeds following a two year pilot.
The IncludeAge Project
This guest blog explores the importance of inclusion in building strong, diverse communities. The IncludeAge project, led by Professor Judith Sixsmith at the University of Dundee and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, works across the UK (Scotland, England and Wales).
Why inclusion matters
In this guest blog, Professor Judith Sixsmith, from IncludeAge at the University of Dundee, explores the value of older LGBT+ people and older people with learning disabilities in everyday communities.
Seeing a person in all their wonderfulness
Nic Crosby and Amanda Nally explore the need for services to challenge themselves. Are they truly person-centred, or, is it just nice words that hide reality?
Joining the dots: the Sounding Board’s unique opportunity to make a real difference
The unique and invaluable role that members of the NHS England’s Older People’s Sounding Board play involves not only sharing their life experiences, opinions and knowledge, writes Tony Watts OBE. It’s also demonstrating that maintaining...
Rebuilding an inclusive education system
A call for urgent educational reform following the new Public Accounts Committee report on support for children and young people with special educational needs.