As the Chinese Wellbeing Service is added to TLAP’s Directory of Innovations in Community Based Support, we explore their personalised approach to cultural care.
TLAP’s Policy Advisor Martin Walker shares how recent experience has forced him to reappraise his thinking about the contribution of social workers and good practice he has heard about first-hand.
As TLAP explores how to reduce bureaucracy in direct payment oversight, Philippa Russell reflects on the important role of families in encouraging take up of direct payments.
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.