It’s a well-worn cliché that things generally come to a standstill in this country when snow falls. Not so for our incredible team members at Equal Care, who have shown extraordinary togetherness, self-organisation, and resourcefulness to ensure that support is delivered when and where it is needed—come frost,

For Neurodiversity Celebration Week, I spoke to our colleague Liz about her own experiences of being autistic and how it shapes her work and interactions with others.  As well as giving care and support in Calderdale, Liz plays a pivotal role in our Co-op's path forward as a

We were founded with a clear purpose: to address the fundamental flaws in social care by putting power in the hands of those who matter most - the people who give and receive care and support. Step by step, we are developing and testing a model of social care that

In this blog, the incredible Molly talks about her experiences of giving care and support alongside her poodle Dora and the joy it has brought to both her and those she supports. Being able to incorporate pets into care and support is something that I think the majority of us

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Last week our Lead Engineer Matt invited you all to try your hand at producing some art using some Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools that he has used to generate images for his Equal Code blog. The request was for images of people giving and receiving care and support, and one

There is no reason to believe that bureaucrats and politicians, no matter how well-meaning, are better at solving problems than the people on the spot, who have the strongest incentive to get the solution right. -Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2009 Full disclosure: I wasn’t aware of sociocracy

Who do you provide care and support for? Who cares for, or supports you? For many, the immediate response to these questions might seem relatively straightforward: a quick roll-call of close family members, maybe a couple of close friends. However like most things in life, the closer you examine these

The scenario is now familiar to most of us who have ordered anything online. You need something - a gift, a takeaway - and you click through options on a screen before you arrive at your choice and click order. Then, after a specified amount of time a person arrives

“Very few of us are leaving this world without becoming Disabled. If injury or illness doesn’t make us Disabled, old age is highly likely to do so… To look disability in the eye is to look at ourselves, and our future selves, in the eye."