Hi, we’re TLAP.
We’re a partnership of people and organisations working to make health and social care more personalised, so that more people can live their life their way.
Hi, we’re TLAP.
We’re a partnership of people and organisations working to make health and social care more personalised, so that more people can live their life their way.
Explore our hubs
Making It Real
Making It Real is a set of co-produced statements that describe what good care and support looks like. Discover how you can use them to spark ideas that can improve people’s lives.
Choice and control
Explore resources on how people can have control of their own care and support, and the difference it can make.
Co-production
Learn why the best people to design care and support are those who draw on it, and how we can make that happen.
Language
Explore practical tips and thoughtful discussions about using more human, everyday language in health and social care.
Asset-based commissioning
Tools, insights and examples for supporting social care commissioning that focuses on what matters to people.
News
SCIE and TLAP support proposals for a fairer system of social care
Today, 12 October 2026, The King’s Fund has published ‘Equal access: a fairer system of social care support for England’, setting out its recommendations on how to reform the social care sector. It has also shared new analysis which reveals significant local...
Blog
Supporting people to live the lives they choose
Jacqui Darlington, a member of the National Co-production Advisory Group, reflects on the importance of choice and control in care and support.
Blog
Direct Payments should support a life, not create another system to manage
A lived-experience response to The King’s Fund report on Direct Payments from Dr Clenton Farquharson CBE, Associate Director, Policy and Influencing.
Latest resources
Webinar: Developing an Individual Service Fund (ISF) offer
A webinar that shares lessons learned from Local Authorities implementing Individual Service Funds over recent years.
Developing an Individual Service Fund offer: Learning and recommendations from local authorities
This report outlines what a high-quality, values-driven ISF offer looks like, and provides practical recommendations for local authorities looking to implement such an offer.
Webinar: Early action and asset-based commissioning | Redesigning the front door
A webinar about Hartlepool Borough Council’s community-led support, and how this has involved redesigning their ‘front door’ to become more community-based and connected.