Redesigning the front end of social care is a new paper focusing on what happens when people first encounter social care.
It has been published by In Control in partnership with Community Catalysts, Shared Lives Plus and Inclusive Neighbourhoods.
The paper looks at people’s experiences of assessments, discussions about eligibility and access to services. It explores what these processes do to an individual’s independence and to their relationships with their families and communities.
The King’s Fund has today, 25 September 2026, published ‘Direct Payments: Creating the conditions for choice and control’. This new research explores why Direct Payment uptake varies so widely across England, and what local authorities can do to improve it. Think...
The Prime Minister has established social care as a key government priority. It is encouraging to hear a Prime Minister acknowledge the importance of reform, describing previous failure to reform as “a major dereliction of public duty”, calling for “more problem...
Today, 29 July 2026, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) have responded to the launch of the Big Conversation on Care, led by Baroness Casey’s independent commission on adult social care, and the Prime Minister’s three...
Today Think Local Act Personal have published a new report to support local authorities to develop an offer around Individual Service Funds (ISFs). ISFs can be transformational for people who draw on care and support, but they are not widely available across local...
