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.
News (Effective 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.
Better Now: A collaborative call to action at NCASC 2024
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.
NDTi and NIHR win European Social Services Award for CLS Research
Community Led Support, in partnership with the NIHR funded research team led by the University of Birmingham, has won a prestigious European Social Services Award (ESSA).
Please vote for NDTi in the European Social Services Awards 2024
Your vote counts. Vote for Small Supports and Community Led Support in the European Social Services Awards 2024.
The breaking of a new dawn for social care
Better is possible now is a shared call to action from NDTi, Community Catalysts and Shared Lives Plus.
Blog: Strengths based change – 10 things for success
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.
Spring festival shines a light on 10 years of local strengths based initiatives
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.
Blog: Reviewing advocacy for people with a learning disability and autistic people
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.