How services offer support
These resources are aimed at providers and commissioners of services for people with a learning disability and autistic people so you can help the people who draw on your support to get the social lives they want.

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Asset-based commissioning
Think Local Act Personal

 

 This hub is a collaborative space bringing together people with lived experience, commissioners, providers and community partners to reflect, share learning and improve how commissioning is done.

Asset-based commissioning starts with what matters to people and the strengths within communities. This hub shares practical tools, insights and examples for supporting commissioning that is both more person-centred and asset-based.

 

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REACH standards

Paradigm

 

 The REACH standards are a set of voluntary standards that introduce the fundamental principles of Support for LIVING.

The Reach Practical Guide encourages us all to stay curious and committed to discovering what a good, ordinary life looks like for each person we support.

 

Fundamentally, The Reach Standards remind us about the human rights of all and our duty to protect these.

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CQC Sexuality and relationship and supported living guidance

 

 Relationship and sexuality in adult social care services
Guidance for CQC inspection staff and registered adult social care providers

Promoting sexual safety through empowerment

This report looks at how adult social care services keep people safe from sexual incidents. It also looks at how services can support them to express their sexuality.

 

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ARC England Training Workshops

 Open and in-house training workshops about many aspects of supporting people with learning disabilities and autistic people, including Online Harms, Personal Relationships and Sexuality, Mate Crime, Domestic Abuse, and Loss and Bereavement.

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Training

Gloriously Ordinary Lives

 

 Seeing support through a different lens. What would it take for everyone to have gloriously ordinary lives?

 

Includes Gloriously Ordinary Language training.

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