Community Led Support Evidence & Learning

A series of six briefings and several blogs, podcasts and case studies, to share findings and lessons from the second major round up of data, stories, evaluation findings and programme lessons exploring the impacts of community led support across the UK.

Community Support and Social Care: A new reality

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Shared Learning

New report shows Community Led Support leads the way for covid-19 social care response

Our new report, published today, details how 27 UK local authorities and health and social care partnerships who are part of the Community Led Support Programme have built strong relationships with their communities to improve the speed and effectiveness of support and care available within their local communities.
Showing Strength in Social Care

When the audit of the Coronavirus crisis is compiled, it will surely show that many of the neighbourhoods that have responded best to people’s needs are those where local agencies had previously invested in strengths-based practice.
Podcast: Des McCart on Community Led Support in Scotland

Des McCart from Health Improvement Scotland talks about Community Led Support Evidence & Learning Briefings 2020
How COVID has transformed the strengths-based culture in West Sussex

All this changed with the pandemic lockdown ... recent circumstances in some instances ‘turbo charged’ the move to a strengths based culture of practice.

Published Findings

Paper 1: CLS Evidence & Learning Briefings 2020

This paper is the first in a series of six briefings produced by the CLS Evidence & Learning Team, to share findings and lessons from the second major round up of data, stories, evaluation findings and programme lessons exploring the impacts of community led support across the UK.

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Paper 2: The big themes and messages from Community Led Support

The Programme has dramatically increased from 11 to 27 diverse areas across Scotland, England and Wales. A common feature is their focus on achieving change in public services based on a better understanding of each place, and a stronger relationship with local people.

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Paper 3: Understanding the nature of change in delivering Community Led Support

CLS depends on knowing what works and doesn’t work in each place, what other related developments are already in place (such as Local Area Coordination, social prescribers and wellbeing coordinators), who the local players are right across the system (including in the community) and how best to work respectfully alongside them.

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Paper 4: Community Led Support: Learning from Stories of Change

Capturing, sharing and learning from change stories is a key component of the Evidence & Learning activities taking place within and across all CLS sites.

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Paper 5: Community Led Support in Scotland

Scotland shares many of the same opportunities and challenges with the rest of the UK including rising demand for services, decreasing budgets, increasing expectations and workforce challenges

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Paper 6a: Learning from local approaches to implementing Community Led Support in Somerset

The key driver for local authorities and their partners in adopting Community Led Support is delivering better outcomes for individuals and the community.

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Paper 6b: Lessons from implementing CLS in Scottish Borders

In this Paper, we focus on Scottish Borders - an established CLS site with good data literacy and a realistic approach to collecting and using different sources of evidence - to look at what we know is changing as a result of their local approach and what can be learnt from this.

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