A project that will focus on evaluating and strengthening ‘Safe Waiting’, a core Local Area Coordination practice.

How can Local Area Coordination be explained within the time it takes to have a brief journey in a lift? This question formed the starting point for our ‘LAC in a lift’ exercise at the LAC Network spring gatherings this year. 

Earlier this month, Local Area Coordination teams up and down the country celebrated Local Area Coordination Week, giving us the chance to stop and recognise the difference that this work makes every day.

At a time when many services are under pressure to do more, do it faster, and do it with less, there can be a pull towards standardisation that prioritises process over people. Local Area Coordination offers a different kind of consistency: one that holds firmly onto values and approach, while remaining flexible and responsive in practice.

The Local Area Coordination Team in Havering reflect on what makes Local Area Coordination such a unique and powerful support to people.

Nick Sinclair, Programme Director at Community Catalysts, asserts what makes Local Area Coordination unique is not what is done, but how it is done.

This month, we collaborated with the National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) to host a ‘Neighbourhoods for Living Well’ event, reflecting the growing interest in neighbourhoods as a place for health creation and change.

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 the world of Local Area Coordination, we believe that our ability to age and live well starts in the places we call home: our streets, neighbourhoods, and villages where relationships shape daily life.

Network Manager Tom Richards recently had the opportunity to take part in PPL’s Neighbourhood Health simulation at the NHS Providers Conference in Manchester.

Tom reflects on feeling stuck, and how this is a common theme in the world of Local Area Coordination. However, being stuck can be an important moment to discover what needs to happen next!

On Wednesday 10th September, we marked a special day in Derby as the Local Area Coordination Network came together to celebrate 15 years of Local Area Coordination in England.