This month’s edition includes: Collaborating for real change – social prescribing and Local Area Coordination blog Links to a host of recent publications featuring Local Area Coordination and asset-based approaches Annual conference for the Wales School for Social Care research…
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…
This month’s edition includes: Reflection on Derby’s care leaver project Trailblazing GPs in Swansea Derbyshire blog News from Singapore and more… Read the newsletter here Read past copies here Sign up to receive copies directly to your inbox here
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…
This month’s edition includes: Three super stories Community connections at Christmas Giving people lifts Blogs and more… Read the newsletter here Read past copies here Sign up to receive copies directly to your inbox here
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…
The evaluation took place in the early stages of operation of Local Area Coordination in Waltham Forest. The evaluation demonstrates that, alongside other previously published national evaluations, the Local Area Coordination approach in Waltham Forest “is successful at improving the quality…