This report, developed in partnership with national and regional occupational therapy leaders, explores the unique role of occupational therapists in councils. It highlights their impact across housing, health, care, and employment, and sets out what the Government can do to unlock their full potential and support delivery of their missions.
The following summary sets out a new programme of sector led improvement support for adult social care and public health services available to councils in 2025/26.
This research produced by Isos Partnership, commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA) is an addendum to our report on the future of the SEND system in England.
The Council for Disabled Children and Partners in Care and Health would like to thank the group of parent carers, experts by experience and practitioners that contributed to the development of this guide. Their expertise and insights have been invaluable throughout this process and have helped us to ensure that the contents of the guide are aligned with the needs of autistic young people who move on from children’s social care and health services.
This document is a ‘how to’ guide for the development of a collaborative community approach to supporting the adult social care front door. Rather than being prescriptive, this guide aims to empower practitioners to think about what might work best in their local context and to provide the tools to help them.
This research by Isos Partnership builds on previous research into home to school transport carried out for the LGA in 2019. This report brings the analysis of pressures on the system up to date and explores the opportunities for future policy change in the context of potential wider reforms to the SEND system.
Local government is being grant funded to develop Connect to Work (CtW), a voluntary Supported Employment ‘place, train and maintain’ service to help disabled people, people with health conditions and those with complex barriers, find and stay in work. This series of top tips aims to give local government officers and elected members a good understanding of the benefits of CtW, how to make good use of it, and how it can be aligned to other council and external work.
This report presents insight on how local and combined authorities are working on employment, skills and growth, structured around three themes of local government activity.
