Introduction Building on 30 years of national and international learning and evidence, Local Area Coordination is growing in strength, outcomes and influence in England and Wales. There have been 13 independent evaluations in the past 8 years, showing that where…
Nick Sinclair, Director of the Local Area Coordination Network at Community Catalysts, has written a blog contributing to #socialcarefuture In the blog Nick explores the world of civil and structural engineering as a metaphor for the communities we live in,…
The summative evaluation of the Local Area Coordination programme in York has now been published. The evaluation was compiled by the University of York. The evaluation reviews data collected along with interviews with people who have made use of Local…
In researching my job interview presentation last year, I quickly picked up that language was a really important part of the strengths-based model of Local Area Coordination. I also noted that in some of the stuff I’d been reading the…
Community Catalysts really welcomes NHS England’s commitment in its Long Term Plan to the social prescribing model. The plan has an ambitious goal of employing one thousand more link workers by 2021, with the expectation that they will work with…
On a recent visit to Derbyshire I had the privilege of hearing Colin’s story. His story is one about changing paths, both literally and metaphorically. The part of Colin’s story highlighted here shows the importance of exploring what someone’s vision…
Local Area Coordination is growing in Swansea and now covers the Cwmtawe area thanks to partnership working from forward-thinking GPs in the Cwmtawe Cluster Network. The new Local Area Coordinator post is funded by the Welsh Government’s transformation funding which was…
The Derby team are heading into the second year of their ‘Innovation Programme’ project working with young people linked to the care system and have put together some reflections about their learning to date. The team have used the Local Area Coordination…
We have three ‘super stories’ to share about three ‘super people’ who have been connected to Local Area Coordination in the last year. The stories provide a real insight into how Local Area Coordination works and why it’s something communities…
The independent evaluation of the Local Area Coordination programme in Suffolk has now been published. The evaluation was compiled by the University of Essex and shows that the programme: Reduced demand on other services (health, police, education, council) Reduced the…