Alder Advice helped to organise and facilitate a three-day gathering of Appreciative Inquiry practitioners in Findhorn, Scotland on 12th–14th Sept 2025.
The gathering was the first of what we hope will be many similar International Alliance for Appreciative Inquiry (IAAi) gatherings in the next few years. The aim was to enable open and generative conversations around how to further develop Ai thinking and practice.
READ MOREIn the Summer of 2023 we began to enable a co-productive Appreciative Inquiry process at Portsmouth to explore the scope to implement strengths based practice across adult social care. This recently completed project has involved a:
ADASS Eastern Region – Improving Support for Working Age Adults in the Region
On 10th October 2025 Alder Advice presented the findings from its research for East England ADASS into how to best meet the needs of adults aged 18-64 with complex needs cost effectively.
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Rob jointly founded Alder Advice along with Dan Short in 2009-10.
He has been a wonderful colleague. His hard work, creative abilities, strategic thinking, and networking prowess have all helped make Alder Advice what it is today - a highly respected external adviser to the social care and health sectors.
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Published on Tuesday 8th August 2022 by Dan Short
The dementia learning and development framework/toolkit developed by Alder Advice for Social Care Wales in close collaboration with key stakeholders has five sections. Each section is a building block for effective learning and development. The building blocks are:
Each building block:
The dementia learning and development framework/toolkit is designed to support leaders, managers, and workforce leaders across health and social care to come together (including with other interested parties) to lead local dementia learning and development approaches. It will also help:
Commenting on the framework Bec Cicero Rheolwr Datblygu a Gwella / Improvement and Development Manager, Gofal Cymdeithasol I Oedolion / Adult Social Care said:
“We are really pleased with the work Alder Advice has done for us in developing a simple and practical tool to help organisations plan and deliver their dementia learning and development.The team (Dan, Annette and Ceryl) really listened to what we needed and have created a really helpful, evidence based resource that has been well received by colleagues in the social care sector in Wales.”
For more information about this project contact Dan.Short@alderadvice.co.uk