In a crossover of her work and studies, Tara Hughes has written this blog piece about Local Area Coordination in Wales in relation to the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act (2014).
Blog piece by Jennie Cox, tentatively exploring whether the use of ‘mental health’ as a catch-all for the disruptions of human life may lead to problems which adversely impact on a person’s ability to navigate through the inevitable difficulties of living.
January ’20 edition of the Local Area Coordination Network Newsletter.
December ’19 edition of the Local Area Coordination Network Newsletter.
November ’19 edition of the Local Area Coordination Network Newsletter.
The members’ conference took place on 4th-5th November in Derby. We’ve put together video highlights of the event and speaker slots which offer useful insights about Local Area Coordination to those in the wider sector.
October ’19 edition of the Local Area Coordination Network Newsletter.
Jennie Cox (Senior Local Area Coordinator in York) and Christine Marmion (Project Manager of Ways to Wellbeing: the social prescribing service in the city) came together to address ‘the signposting question’ which they found their teams were frequently encountering.
September ’19 edition of the Local Area Coordination Network Newsletter.
August ’19 edition of the Local Area Coordination Network Newsletter.
Local Area Coordinators are on hand to help people build bridges between groups, identify funding, establish and sustain new groups, and support people to use their voice in order to co-design public services, as demonstrated by this example from the London Borough of Haringey.
In our recent report, ‘It’s Time for Local Area Coordination’, Neil Woodhead (Derby City Council’s Social Capital Development Manager) shared his insights from the last seven years of leading Local Area Coordination in Derby. In this excerpt, Neil outlines the crucial role that relationships play in making Local Area Coordination work.
