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These are our nine top tips when looking for housing for young people with SEND. This guide is written for families and supporters to share with young people.

How meeting through Shared Lives led Andy and James to form 'Local Social', a community interest company, that has changed both their lives. Author: Andy Cooke

The value of building community capacity to social care is now widely recognised. Despite this acceptance, and a growing body of work to support development, its spread is uneven with pockets of promising practice rather than large-scale change.

Our recent Housing Round Table in Newcastle discussing people’s equal rights to live independently in communities brought together a great range of voices of those living in supported housing as well as those providing and regulating it.

Guest blog by parent carer Maureen, Co-Chair of The National Network of Parent Carer Forums (NNPCF).

Working with the Office for Disability Issues on a regional initiative focused on independent living with and for older people who have high support needs.

Independent living and housing options is one of the four PfA outcomes that support young people to move into adulthood with good lives; however it seems to be one of the more challenging ones to get right.

Helping family carers to understand personalisation, and building their support for using it as a way of achieving positive change in the lives of their family members.

The Office for Disability Issues commisioned NDTi to produce a resource designed to help strategic managers working in local authorities to implement practical strategies to increase voice, choice and control for older people.

Internships Work is a partnership between NDTi, BASE and DFN Project SEARCH to enable 4500 young people with additional needs gain a supported internship each year by 2025.