NDTi Podcasts | Talking Inclusion

This episode dives into the student-led Support in Schools project in Torbay, exploring how local voices are shaping school wellbeing and the drive to make students’ needs heard in national policy. Ivy and Sara unpack powerful survey data, what students really want, and the big plan to bring thousands of young people, parents and teachers into the conversation.

What makes for good support?
With Alexis Quinn and Tricia Nicoll, a conversation heavily shaped by personal and family experience.
Alexis Quinn: The Restraint Reduction Network
Tricia Nicoll: Gloriously Ordinary Lives

In this third episode of the Autumn podcast Foundations series, from the Small Supports programme, Nic Crosby, Small Supports programme lead, is in conversation with Charli Clement and Kirsten Peebles, Experts by Experience and NDTi Associates and Sam Smith, CEO of C-Change Scotland, a Small Supports Organisation.
Find Sam's book:
Human Rights and Social Care: Putting Rights into Practice (Policy and Practice in Health and Social Care)
Charli’s book: All Tangled Up in Autism and Chronic Illness; A guide to navigating multiple conditions

Institutions are No Solution; in conversation with Simone Aspis, Lucy Bowerman, Ava McAuley and Pam Bebbington, members of the Free Our People campaign, a disabled people’s led campaign to end the institutionalisation of people in the UK. This is our second podcast in this Autumn Foundations series from the Small Supports programme.
The Free Our People Now project aims to help autistic people and people with learning difficulties, with lived experience of the psychiatric system, to have a voice and advocate for urgent change, so Autistic people and people with learning difficulties can live in their own homes rather than in hospitals.
About Free Our People Now - Inclusion London
About ‘Free Our People Now’ (PDF document)

In this special Foundations series from the Small Supports programme, Nic Crosby talks about the history and the future of Small Supports, with Simon Duffy, Citizen Network.

A global research and action platform of social innovators, campaigners and independent researchers, based in the United Kingdom

Thomas is talking to Victoria Mason-Angelow from NDTi and Ikra and Ruth from the Time to Talk Next Steps programme about how coproduction worked for them.

Coproduction in practice. Talking with Ikra and Jon about their experiences of coproduction on the Time to Talk programme.

Harshi's Story - Talking about her #BeVisible film, her involvement with the Time to Talk Programme during the pandemic and what has changed for her since becoming an adult.

Autism and Ageing - Talking to Gemma and Paul about the BIG conversation project, the conversation starters and how people can get involved.

200 Lives Project - talking to Siraaj and Jackie from Changing Our Lives about how their quality of life reviews contributed to the 200 Lives research project: Evaluating supported living and residential care for adults with learning disabilities