Professionals
For professionals working with caregiving families
If you work alongside caregiving families, in social care, health, education, or the voluntary sector, you know how much rides on what a family can tell you, and how stretched they often are. TIWANI is infrastructure those families use to prepare, organise, and share.
It is non-clinical by design. It suggests, it never instructs, it holds no health records, and it signposts to the same authoritative sources you rely on. It is built to make a family's knowledge easier to share with you, not to replace your judgement.
How TIWANI helps
A clearer picture from the family
When a family you support uses TIWANI, they can share a Continuity Card: one clear page of what helps and what to avoid for the person they care for, in their own words, so the basics are there from the start.
Preparation the family owns
TIWANI helps families turn lived experience into reusable preparation plans for the events that take planning. They are suggestions the family accepts or edits, so the plan is theirs, not imposed.
An early, non-clinical signal of strain
A family's private continuity signal can prompt a conversation early, rather than only after things come to a head. It is a planning prompt the family chooses to share, never a clinical assessment or a record you hold.
Built to signpost, within the boundary
TIWANI is non-clinical infrastructure. It points families to statutory and community support, the same authoritative sources listed below, and never offers medical advice.
Trusted information and support
Reference points for carer-aware, person-centred practice. Each link opens an official or established UK source in a new tab.
Standards and evidence
- NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence)Evidence-based guidance and quality standards for health, public health, and social care.(opens in a new tab)
- SCIE (Social Care Institute for Excellence)Practice resources on care and support, co-production, and safeguarding.(opens in a new tab)
- Research in PracticeEvidence-informed resources and learning for people working across children's and adults' services.(opens in a new tab)
Law and statutory guidance
- GOV.UK: Care and support statutory guidance (Care Act 2014)The statutory guidance that underpins adult social care duties in England.(opens in a new tab)
- GOV.UK: SEND code of practice, 0 to 25 yearsThe statutory guidance for organisations working with children and young people with SEND.(opens in a new tab)
- Care Quality Commission (CQC)The independent regulator of health and adult social care in England.(opens in a new tab)
Workforce and carer-aware practice
- Skills for CareWorkforce development and good-practice resources for the adult social care sector.(opens in a new tab)
- Carers TrustA network supporting unpaid carers, with resources for the professionals who work with them.(opens in a new tab)
- Think Local Act Personal (TLAP)A partnership for personalised, community-based care and support.(opens in a new tab)
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Help us build TIWANI
TIWANI is built by a small team for families who carry more than their share. If you would like to help us keep building it, you can register your interest in supporting our work. Donations are not open yet, and we will be clear about how any support is used.