Leading the global development of self-directed support.
Everyone has the right to support that helps them be included as full and valued citizens within the community. Self-Directed Support (SDS) is the name for those supports. The SDS Network is the global network dedicated to improving awareness of best-practice in self-directed support and inclusion.
The founding governance for the SDS Network reflects the ongoing commitment of many individuals and organisations to create the network and the need to reflect the global growth of SDS in a balanced way.
It is free to join the network and many different countries are represented. The Network is actively supported by the Finnish organisation Tukena and the 3 co-chairs who represent different sections of the world:
Find out more about this work on the SDS Network website here.
Contact members of the Board of SDS Network through the profile links below.
Check out the large variety of free resources on Self-Directed Support in our Citizen Network library here.
Wales
247grid is a visual online digital costed support planning tool, designed by an unpaid carer and coproduced with other end users of social care, social workers and care providers, to facilitate a better coproductive conversation.
England
Abilia gives people the power to become independent and take control of their daily lives.
England
Care administration systems and services for commissioners, care providers and individuals.
Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship
Canada
CIIC is Canada’s only university-based research centre with a dedicated focus on social policy and the full inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
England
CareMatch is a unique opportunity to help Care Receivers find a small team of Care Givers to enable them to live at home well.
England
Catalyst Care Group is a family of organisations designed and built with the sole purpose of enabling people to receive high quality care and support at home, avoiding the need for mental health hospital admissions.
England
Our aim is to provide a support service that helps individuals with a learning disability and/or mental health condition.
England
The Down's Syndrome Association (DSA) supports all people who have Down's syndrome, their parents and carers and the professionals who work with them, throughout their lives.
Human Services Research Institute
USA
Since 1976, we've been helping to craft community-based, person-driven service systems.
New Zealand
We are a social enterprise that is an Individualised Funding Host Provider. Global SDS Network Sponsor
England
My Life My Way was established to enable those using self-directed services to benefit from technology as a key enabler of modern self-directed services.
England
Pairly is an industry defining, and improvement, tool that has huge benefits for its users.
England
PPL are the #1 digital personalisation solution in the UK, working with health and social care organisations to support people, strengthen places and improve lives.
England
Training and development consultancy empowering individuals and families to take control of their support. SDS Network England Host
England
Solo works with the client, their representatives and commissioners to provide tailor-made packages of care for those with complex medical needs, Learning Disabilities and Autism.
England
Total Care Manager is a care management platform for complex care and more.
England
Troika Consultancy Ltd.’s vision is to offer services that will make a positive impact and transformation in people’s lives by supporting them to be in control of it. We help citizens to manage their own social/care support and choose the services that best suit them.
Finland
Tukena Foundation and Tukena Ltd produce services all over Finland. Our aim is to find individual solutions and to create high-quality services to support people with intellectual disabilities or special support needs and their families.
