News (Change & Development)

Nic Crosby, Small Supports programme lead, reflects on a range of evidence and learning that is championing independence for people with learning disabilities and autistic people.

Better is possible now is a shared call to action from NDTi, Community Catalysts and Shared Lives Plus.

Jenny Pitts, programme lead for the Community Led Support programme, reflects on her own learning from the last decade and what it really takes for local areas to make a success of embedding a strengths based approach.

We are getting started with our planning for this year's Advocacy Awareness Week #AAW24. Do you want to be a part of shaping this year's campaign theme and resources?

The Community Led Support spring festival is here for another year! It’s free, it’s online, on 15-16 May and it’s open to anyone with an interest in strengths based, community led approaches to social care and health.

Our advocacy review spurs work to create a new set of tools and resources. Join our focus groups to input.

As part of our seasonal 12 days of human rights campaign, Nic Crosby, Lyn Griffiths and Amanda Nally share their thoughts around person centred planning.

Amanda Nally writes about the Community Led Support 2023 annual gathering in Manchester and breaking through almost 10 years of transforming adult social care in communities.

What is advocacy? Gail Petty, our advocacy and rights lead, introduces this year’s Advocacy Awareness Week.

Advocacy lead, Gail Petty, writes about the findings from a major new research report which reviews advocacy for people with learning disabilities and autistic people who are inpatients in mental health settings.