Making it Real
Marking Progress Towards Personalisation and Community-Based Support: publicly declare commitment to improving the way older and disabled adults experience care and support.
Blueprint for Personalised Care and Support
A tool for supporting providers and commissioners to learn from innovative practice in commissioning and delivering personalised services.
Building Community Capacity
Interested in the role of social capital in the transformation of social care?
National Co-production Advisory Group
The National Co-production Advisory Group has wide-ranging knowledge and ability, skills to offer organisations and information about how to co-produce, co-design and co-operate.
National Market Development Forum
The National Market Development Forum's challenge is to facilitate a greater choice of affordable, locally available, responsive services that people want.
Self-directed Support
The Self-directed Support pages support the personalisation agenda at a national and local level, by conducting, reviewing, and sharing information to help increase the uptake of personal budgets.
Topics and resources
Latest news
- Response to Newsnight story on home care neglect
A statement from Think Local Act Personal Director Sam Bennett following yesterday's Newsnight report highlighting neglect in home care. - Dementia Gateway: supporting carers
The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) have launched a new section of their Dementia Gateway website 'Working alongside and supporting carers'. This new section gives practical tips and advice to health and social care staff to support carers caring for someone with Dementia. - Personal Health Budgets - support for CCGs
Patients are increasingly involved in their own personal care planning, becoming key to the decisions made about their care. In addition new Personal Health Budgets (PHB) will give them the opportunity to manage funds and say how they are used. - Recognising the vital work of carers - Carers Week
TLAP welcomes Carers Week as an opportunity to reflect and recognise the vital work of carers and how we can support them.
National Market Development Forum
Key resources
- 2nd National Personal Budget Survey
- Integrated care and support: our shared commitment
- Making it Real for Carers
- Making it Real for People with Dementia
- Whose Shoes?® - Making It Real
- Paths to Personalisation in Mental Health
- Leadership of Empowered and Healthy Communities programme
- Driving up Quality in Adult Social Care: Quality Assurance briefings
- A Problem Shared: Making best use of resources - reports and toolkit