News (Commissioners)

We're delighted to be collaborating with Shared Lives Plus and Community Catalysts on a campaign to highlight a range of proven approaches that are reshaping conversations about social care.

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.

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.

It’s time to take responsibility. Jane Friswell and Bill Love reflect on placements, secure settings and failing people.

Introducing Community Led Support’s Evidence & Learning Briefing Papers. In these surreal, unpredictable, and troubling times it may seem strange publishing these papers from the Community Led Support Programme, but arguably they are more important now than ever.

Mark Trewin, from the Department of Health & Social Care, welcomes NDTi’s Close to Home paper for highlighting the need for the whole mental health system to work together to improve access to supportive community services.

Three important resources have been launched this week that aim to help authorities, education providers and career advisers provide a more inclusive approach to employment for young adults following evidence that school leavers with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are finding it difficult to achieve their work ambitions.

A new guide has been launched today by the National Development team for Inclusion (NDTi) to help commissioners to implement Government policy on how to commission cost- and outcome-effective services for people with learning disabilities described as 'challenging'.