This is a paper about new learning and a new way of working in social care. It includes the people development jigsaw and action plan.

A document providing guidance for local authorities about workforce development.

Easy read booklet about staff evaluation. Wrexham Council and Paradigm worked together on a training course to support people who have learning disabilities to recruit staff. This is the training pack and evaluation.

Easy read booklet about Training and choosing your own staff. This book will help you to train other people how to choose their own staff. Inside are all of the exercises that you will need with instructions on how to do them.

This discussion paper is primarily focused on the issue of the relationship between personalisation and safeguarding.

This Guide sets out the important principles and, in some areas, the specific details of how to ensure the health and safety of people who receive support in the community, and that of their staff, family and friends, and the general public.

A guide exploring options for the local authority in stimulating creative support responses for people who have an individual budget.

Simple self assessment tool developed by providers and commissioners to help providers think about their progress in responding to the personalisation agenda. The tool particularly focuses on delivering personalised, individually costed services ...

Using new technology to enhance the lives of older people in Newcastle. This paper seeks to present some of the areas in which digital technology might bring benefits for Older People in Newcastle from the perspective of the Council Adult Services...

Paper on framework and strategies for building community capacity. First draft. The paper provides the initial framework for developing communty capacity.