Alongside the Adult Social Care White Paper the government published the draft bill.

Read Martin Routledge's blog post on the White Paper.

Read our guest blog post from Helen Allen, Operations Manager at Community Catalysts.

Simon Stockton, co-director of Groundswell Partnership, blogs here about the importance of a people-led approach to support planning and introduces Groundswell's new report - Empower and Enable.

Think Local, Act Personal (TLAP) is a partnership of national bodies and organisations but the clue to its purpose is in the title THINK LOCAL! We need to make sure that the TLAP vision and coalition is in place at a local level. A very positive devel...

Blog post on the latest personal budget numbers.

I've blogged several times on this before of course but now I'm looking for your help. You might have seen that I am working with Sarah Carr the personalisation lead at SCIE, to lead a Think Local, Act Personal review of personal budgets for older peo...

Today we publish a new paper urging the government to use the forthcoming White Paper as an opportunity to redesign the social care system at the point of need. We urgently need a system which is based on a partnership with people, rather than a battle.

Today (17 May 2012) sees Making it Real (MIR) going live at the Community Care Live event in London. Making it Real offers the Think Local, Act Personal (TLAP) markers of progress for personalisation and community-based support

This week, Sarah Teather, Children's Minister is State for Children and Families announced that families are to be given personal budgets for special educational needs support (SEN).