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Building community capacity is the process of helping a community to support itself through asset-based commissioning, co-production,  micro-enterprises and Individual Service Funds. Our directory of Innovations in community-centred support offers a collection of examples to support commissioners & providers. 

Support for councils and providers to develop a quality care market and workforce that is person-centred and cost-effective. 

• Resources include Person-centred care and support for home care providers and Co - production in Commissioning and Care Markets & Quality Forum.

Guidance materials on personal budgets, Individual Service Funds. 

• Featuring the Personal Budgets Minimum Process Framework.

Guidance on integrating health and social care so that people receive care that is personlised and joined-up.

• Featuring the Personalised Care & Support Planning Tool.

Guidance materials to support local authorities and care providers with Care Act 2014 duties. #careact2014

• Featuring the Care Act survey for people with care & support needs, and carers, Information and Advice Strategy Toolkit, Personal Budgets Minimum Process Framework, and the  Personalised Care & Support Planning Tool

Via the workings of the Quality Forum, we to help clarify which organisations are involved in driving quality, what they are doing and what this means for people who use services, carers and professionals.

• Featuring the Quality Initiatives Map.

Better information and advice can help people find ways to meet their support needs and reduce reliance on formal services. 

• Featured tools include the Information and Advice Strategy Toolkit and Care and Support Jargon Buster.

A framework to support good personalised care and support for providers, commissioners and people who access services

Support and information on what co-production is and how to co-produce with people with lived experience.

• Featuring the Co-production in Commissioning Tool

Work is led by the National Co-production Advisory Group