Clenton Farquharson MBE, Chair of Think Local Act Personal (TLAP), reflects on what leadership means in social care as he is named winner of the Social Care Top 30, and how he wants to use this platform.
How cycling transformed Caroline’s Waugh’s life and enabled her to become an advocate for co-production, and a disabled health champion – as well as a TV appearance in Saved and Remade.
Choice Support has committed to Making it Real. Dan Johnson and Sherri Hope, from Choice Support, and Elizabeth Deeves, from Bexley Council, discuss how this approach is supporting changes in social care commissioning.
Matthew Bick, makes the case for partnership and investment in the voluntary and community sectors, based on his experience with neighbourhood networks in Birmingham.
Two TLAP partners feature in recent WHO guidance on community mental health services. This blog by Karyn Kirkpatrick from KeyRing and Alex Fox, from Shared Lives Plus reflects on what innovation means to them and how we can all learn from each other.
Learning about co-production as a new commissioner in a local authority. A blog testing the hypothesis that good commissioning is dependent on co-production.
Ian Kennard, Commissioning Manager at Thurrock Council, de-mystifies the mechanics of co-production in commissioning a service designed to help people choose and utilise a direct payment.
Clenton Farquharson MBE, TLAP Chair, opens a conversation about equality, and equity, and asks if we need to treat people differently to provide equality of opportunity?
Acute Need CIC is one of many care providers who’ve made a commitment to offering personalised care and support by adopting the Making it Real framework
Homeshare arrangements not only support wellbeing, relieve pressure on overstretched health services they support mental health and isolation. Sarah Clarke makes a compelling case for why we need more Homeshare and particularly for older people who were severely impacted by the pandemic in England.
Kate Linsky from the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) reflects on the work she has undertaken on behalf of TLAP to trace how the role of ‘community’ in shaping policy, legislation and practice in health and social care has grown in recent years.