News (Commissioning)

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.

Your vote counts. Vote for Small Supports and Community Led Support in the European Social Services Awards 2024.

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.

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

A Mother, Carer and "Expert by Experience" of the Care and Treatment Review process offers her views

explores how individually designed and led, community-based supports have worked to protect both people’s health and human rights.

‘The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice’. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous quote is full of optimism, a sense that progress is inevitable. The notion that a hopeful future of greater equality, health and wellbeing is somehow preordained.

Covid-19 has shone a spotlight on issues that were known to exist but were not given prominent national focus. The implications of the pandemic, played out in the full glare of publicity, has cast a sharper light on issues of poverty, disability, minority ethnic communities and the unequal distribution of caring responsibilities.

An interview, following last night's Panorama Part 2 Crisis in Care, with Adult Social Care Commissioner Pip Cannons on the changes that are liberating the care and support now being offered in Somerset communities.