Social action, also known as community development, is people coming together to help improve their lives and solve shared problems. People volunteer, befriend, advocate, join social movements and organise and develop community assets and services.
Asset-based areas are committed to being asset-focused in everything they do. In particular they aim to ensure all their activities build and maintain family and community connections and people’s confidence, knowledge and resilience.
This briefing by Shared Lives CE Alex Fox describes ten features of an ‘asset-based area’ which are necessary for developing strong communities and sustainable public services.
A Social Return on Investment Analysis for Derby City Council (SROI) has found that for a three year forecast period with 10 Local Area Coordinators, £4.00 of social value would be earned for every £1.00...
The Care Act places a responsibility on health and wellbeing boards and partners to fulfil new wellbeing and prevention duties. Developing the Power of Strong, Inclusive Communities sets out a framework,...
The Social care jargon buster is a plain English guide to the most commonly used social care words and phrases and what they mean. Chair of TLAP's Information and Advice work stream and Chief Executive...