News (Effective Practice)

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Our Small Supports programme is hosting a series of lunchtime webinars in the Autumn.

Our annual two day festival returns for another year on 16 and 17 May. The festival is hosted by NDTi's Community Led Support network and brings together an exciting range of free, short online opportunities to hear about strengths-based care and support.

To mark Autism Acceptance Week, we've produced a series of short films on making reasonable adjustments for autistic people.