Projects

Resources and guidance on personal budgets, Individual Service Funds and direct payments. 

• Resources include Better Direct Payments, Improving Direct Payments Oversight, Direct Payments - what are we to do?,  Direct Payments - working or not working? and Self-directed support conversations.

TLAP works to influence areas of policy across government that affect people who draw on care and support. We see personalisation and community-centred support as a gateway to social care reform.
Find reports and policy responses here.

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

• Featuring the Personalised Care & Support Planning Tool.

Care Act easement guidance and the ethical framework to be read alongside it.
Guidance materials to support local authorities and care providers with Care Act 2014 duties. #careact2014

• Featuring the  Information and Advice Strategy Toolkit, Personal Budgets Minimum Process Framework, and the  Personalised Care & Support Planning Tool

TLAP has made a shared commitment with other adult social care organisations to improve quality of care via the Quality Matters initiative. 

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

What is co-production  and how to co-produce with people with lived experience in adult social care.

• Featuring the Co-production in Commissioning Tool

Work is led by the National Co-production Advisory Group