I-Direct Independent Living

28/03/2017

Dorsets work on ISFs

Dorset County Council have established a ground-breaking commissioning strategy that enables people with learning disabilities and mental health problems to manage their own personal budgets.

25/03/2017

The new age of for profit Britain requires a monopoly of increasing, maximum profit commodities. Whilst the Mental Health Taskforce Report harvested, it said nothing about how it intended to improv…

02/03/2017

Life can be complicated. It has its highs and lows prompted by things we can control and things we can’t. There are key times for most of us in our life that make things even more complicated – becoming an …

01/03/2017

The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) is a not-for-profit organisation which works to promote inclusive lives for people who are most at risk of exclusion and who may need support to lead a full life. NDTi exists to make change happen - chang

28/02/2017

Thousands of young people with severe learning disabilities and autism are still locked up in hospitals, despite promises made by the government in its Transforming Care Policy. NHS commissioners c…

05/02/2017

02/01/2017

19/12/2016

Running a social inclusion project for people with learni...

15/12/2016

Our latest blog - Anna Marriott talks about the real issue at the heart of the CQC’s Death Review.
http://www.ndti.org.uk/blog/the-d-word

14/12/2016

14/12/2016

NHS investigations into patient deaths are inadequate and fail grieving families, says a report.

01/11/2016

Simon Duffy calling in to iDirect office after the launch of the citizen network
https://www.facebook.com/citizennetwork/posts/1597186627254861:0

01/11/2016

Feeling revitalised having attended the Dorset ISF day and the launch of the citizen network. iDirect will be signing up. Individuals can sign up to so if you want to find out more check out their face book page.

https://www.facebook.com/citizennetwork/posts/1597186627254861:0

Just out today!! Share far & wide !!

JUST PUBLISHED: Sam Sly and Bob Tindall have written a new guide to Citizenship for providers of support.

read and download the free pdf here: http://bit.ly/citizenship-guide