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…
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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,…
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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…
This month’s edition includes: York photography exhibition From Singapore to Swansea….and beyond! We’re about what is strong, not about what is LACKing and more… Read the newsletter here Read past copies here Sign up to receive copies directly to your…
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…
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…
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