News (Change & Development)

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.

Harry Georgiou, youth advisory and coproduction assistant at DFN Project SEARCH, recently teamed up with NDTi's Thomas Henley to create a film which captures young people's experiences of work.

Thanks to everyone who attended our webinar “A Hole in My Bucket?” – how spending decisions impact wealth and wellbeing of our communities. Slides can be found here and downloaded from this page.

Colleagues from our Small Supports programme recently hosted some visitors from Slovenia who are doing similar work.

This National Inclusion Week Alice McColl, Time to Talk Next Steps programme lead and parent of a young person with additional needs, considers inclusion for young people beyond school.

We’d love to hear more about the fantastic work you’re doing to enable people with learning disabilities to find and stay in paid employment.

In this blog, research and evaluation officer Lauren Blood, talks about our recent research on homelessness and neurodiversity.