Just to say a BIG thank you to everyone for contributing towards making our Christmas get-together so enjoyable. We are a special […]

The final independent evaluation report about the pilot programme “Evaluation of the personal health budget pilot programme” has been published on 30 […]

In Age UK’s latest excellent briefings they call on the government to urgently look at implementing the recommendations from the Dilnot commission. This […]

Individual employers (people who directly employ their care or support staff) are now able to apply for grant funding directly from Skills […]

Skills for Care have produced their latest policy briefing which summarises all the latest research, rulings legislation and policies relating to health […]

The Personalisation Forum Group (a peer support group for people with poor mental health) has approached Active Independence to ask if we […]

In an honest and open interview Dr Simon Duffy talks to Martin Haythorne (chair of Personalisation Forum Group, PFG) about how he ‘he […]

A research report into what local authorities across England are doing to support people who employ personal assistants has been launched. Skills […]

On Tuesday 16th of October 2012 we had a small celebration to mark the occasion of our 1st anniversary and also the […]

As noted in our previous news item (June 2012) the numbers of people receiving their personal budget as a direct payment (in which […]