The Local Area Coordination Network are delighted to celebrate the publication of ‘Rebuilding local support systems – person by person, place by place: international advances in Local Area Coordination’ by Eddie Bartnik, Ralph Broad, Nick Sinclair, and Dr. Sandhya Duggal.

In November 2021, the Local Area Coordination Network heard from Dee, a resident of York who has been alongside a Local Area Coordinator and has been a supporter of Local Area Coordination for multiple years.

This essay (‘A Better Way of “Leading” in the Post-Covid World’ by Nick Sinclair) was originally published in ‘Building A Bigger We: Insights from our Network’ by Caroline Slocock and Steve Wyler at A Better Way.

‘Power and Connection: The international development of Local Area Coordination’ is now available to download online for free.

The summative evaluation of the Local Area Coordination programme in the London Borough of Havering, compiled by Dr Sandhya Duggal, has now been published. The evaluation reviews data collected as well as interviews with people who have made use of Local Area Coordination, community members, Local Area Coordinators, and service managers.

In this video series, Local Area Coordinator David Oliffe describes the concept of Safe Waiting.

International leaders of Local Area Coordination Eddie Bartnik and Ralph Broad have co-authored a new book called ‘Power and Connection’. Join us at the launch event.

Following the decision in early 2021 to expand Local Area Coordination across all seventeen wards of Derby, the latest evaluation looks at Local Area Coordination in Derby 2018 – 2021.

The Local Area Coordination Network is delighted to release this new report, containing a collection of reflections on the 10 principles of Local Area Coordination, which were kindly offered up by the contributors to our Conference in 2020.

‘Alongside’ is a collection of 20 stories from last year about people who have changed their lives with the support of Local Area Coordinators from their local communities.

As the Coronavirus crisis unfolded, it became clear that Local Area Coordination as we knew it was going to look very different. We knew we had an opportunity to learn and started to document information, producing a timeline we can now share with you.

The councils who make up the Local Area Coordination Network have co-produced a new report entitled ‘Which Way Next?’. The report is based on the testimony of many people involved, and outlines how the approach has adapted to meet new challenges.