Independent advocacy plays a critical role in supporting and promoting people’s human rights. This briefing provides information to support the commissioning of statutory and non-statutory advocacy for people with a learning disability and autistic people.
This toolkit is designed to support councils and combined authorities in their engagement with Members of Parliament elected at the 2024 General Election.
Is your council doing all it can to improve outcomes for children and young people?
This document, specifically developed for chief executives, has been shaped by chief executives who are either former directors of children’s services or for other reasons have been closely associated with leading improvement journeys in council children’s services.
This ‘must know’ guide provides background on the Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessment process for lead members and includes information on the background, the process and how to prepare for the assessment. This guide will be updated as we learn more about the assessment process and lead members’ role in it.
This workbook is aimed at helping councillors to understand the signs of stress and to develop strategies to deal with it, as well as building up their own personal resilience in the role.
This report shows quantitative and qualitative finance workforce data highlighting challenges in recruiting, developing and retaining staff across all finance disciplines, and increasing pressures facing finance teams.
This report highlights quantitative and qualitative adult social care workforce data showing challenges in recruiting, developing and retaining staff across the different adult social care specialisms, and increasing pressures facing adult social care teams.
The framework focuses on the development of 'housing with support' for people who are Care Act eligible, as well as people with moderate or low needs who are ineligible for statutory services.
