Hi, we’re TLAP.
We’re a partnership of people and organisations working to make health and social care more personalised, so that more people can live their life their way.
Hi, we’re TLAP.
We’re a partnership of people and organisations working to make health and social care more personalised, so that more people can live their life their way.
Explore our hubs
Making It Real
Making It Real is a set of co-produced statements that describe what good care and support looks like. Discover how you can use them to spark ideas that can improve people’s lives.
Choice and control
Explore resources on how people can have control of their own care and support, and the difference it can make.
Co-production
Learn why the best people to design care and support are those who draw on it, and how we can make that happen.
Language
Explore practical tips and thoughtful discussions about using more human, everyday language in health and social care.
Asset-based commissioning
Tools, insights and examples for supporting social care commissioning that focuses on what matters to people.
News
SCIE and TLAP respond to Prime Minister’s three social care announcements
Today, 29 July 2026, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) have responded to the launch of the Big Conversation on Care, led by Baroness Casey’s independent commission on adult social care, and the Prime Minister’s three...
Blog
Relational co-production
Relational co‑production starts in everyday conversations. We often associate coproduction with large-scale service design and strategy. But most changes are shaped much closer to home and are likely to happen on sofas, in kitchens and living rooms.
Blog
We must support people to get Personal Assistant employment status right
Pat Stack, Chair of the National Direct Payments Forum, talks about his role in creating ‘Personal Assistant Employment Status: A Guide to Support Good Practice’.
Latest resources
Webinar: Developing an Individual Service Fund (ISF) offer
A webinar that shares lessons learned from Local Authorities implementing Individual Service Funds over recent years.
Developing an Individual Service Fund offer: Learning and recommendations from local authorities
This report outlines what a high-quality, values-driven ISF offer looks like, and provides practical recommendations for local authorities looking to implement such an offer.
Webinar: Early action and asset-based commissioning | Redesigning the front door
A webinar about Hartlepool Borough Council’s community-led support, and how this has involved redesigning their ‘front door’ to become more community-based and connected.