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As part of our Community Inclusion work, we explored the approaches and tools that can ensure older people and people with learning disabilities can be connected and contribute to their local communities.

Our team, led by our highly skilled Autistic Associates, carry out environmental sensory assessments in hospitals.

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.

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.

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.

Findings from the evaluation of the 2019-20 Leadership Programme are overwhelmingly positive. Participants are overall very satisfied with the course and feel their leadership knowledge and skills have improved.

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.

Evidence on alliance contracts, highlight the central importance of developing strong, open relationships across the system in delivering successful outcomes....

This paper uses published material, learning from commissioners, providers and people with lived experience, and our own knowledge and experience, to discuss the benefits and challenges of alliance commissioning and coproduction in mental health.