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29th June 2012 Welcome to New Local Area Coordinators! A big welcome to Julia Horsfall (Stroud, Gloucestershire) and Rajeev Nath (Derby City), new Local Area Coordinators – welcome to the LAC family. A big responsibility, but also a wonderful, unique…

A big thank you for the great response to the first issue and offers of contribution and support for forthcoming issues. In each issue, we aim to introduce organisations and approaches that recognise and build on the inherent strength of…

Welcome to the first Local Area Coordination (LAC) Network Newsletter We hope to use the newsletter as a way of Providing more information about Local Area Coordination Establishing communication links between people Keeping everyone up to date with progress Sharing…

Today, the new Report on Local Area Coordination (From Service Users to Citizens) is published by the Centre for Welfare for Reform. The full report is available via here. Originally developed in Western Australia, Local Area Coordination (LAC) has subsequently…

The paper on Local Area Coordination in England and Wales, “From Service Users to Citizens” (Broad, 2012), is soon to be published. The paper explores the impact and opportunities arising from LAC forming the new “primary source of support” (as…

by Ralph Broad (Director Inclusive Neighbourhoods) and Cormac Russell (Director Nurture Development) We are now at the crossroads in social care and health services and also in our local communities. A “crossroad” presents us with a set of questions. Here…