Community Led Support: Through a Human Rights Lens
These resources explain how Community Led Support is supported through elements of the Human Rights Act.
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Blog: Driving change through human rights
Upholding and protecting human rights is central to almost everything we work on. It plays a key role in our organisational strategy. In this blog Annie Smith explains why.
Is lack of evidence holding back advocacy services?
Fergus Hamilton and Tanyah Hameed from Social Finance explore whether independent advocacy services are held back by lack of evidence.
The Costs and Benefits of Time to Talk Next Steps
This report examines the costs and benefits of Time to Talk Next Steps.
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.
Blog: Welcome to Advocacy Awareness Week 2024
In this short piece advocacy lead, Gail Petty, introduces Advocacy Awareness Week and how we can demonstrate impact in advocacy services.
Hear my story
To celebrate Advocacy Awareness Week 2024, this blog from Nicola Grove, founder of Open Storytellers and Storysharing, explains why small personal stories are some important in advocacy.
Becoming a Care (Education) and Treatment Review panel member
Find out how to become a CETR panel member and what it involves.
Seeing a person in all their wonderfulness
Nic Crosby and Amanda Nally explore the need for services to challenge themselves. Are they truly person-centred, or, is it just nice words that hide reality?
Why inclusion matters
In this guest blog, Professor Judith Sixsmith, from IncludeAge at the University of Dundee, explores the value of older LGBT+ people and older people with learning disabilities in everyday communities.