Understanding and aligning link worker and community capacity building activity: A place-based approach in York and Wakefield

This report sets out how be employing link workers helps build community capacity and help health colleagues to deliver greater personalised health, including links to social prescription.

It found that community groups and local people often lack the resource to respond to the needs of the people introduced to them by link workers. Link workers with small budgets can use them to support community groups and fill gaps.