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Advocacy Orkney - Inspiring Scotland

Support in the Right Direction

Advocacy Orkney

Advocacy Orkney provides the local community with self-directed support advocacy services, enabling people to participate fully in social care assessments and make informed decisions about their options and rights. This includes supporting people who are assessed as ineligible for formal social care support and unpaid carers. People are also supported to increase their confidence and ability to speak up, to be active contributors to their lives.

www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/advocacyorkney/

Invitation to tender
08.07.2024

Invitation to tender

Inspiring Scotland invites tenders to undertake a locality needs assessment for services responding to violence against women and girls. Glasgow East Women’s Aid in Easterhouse recently ceased operating bringing to an end their domestic abuse service and delivery of community gender-based violence (GBV) services in the area. This leaves a gap in direct frontline service

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Kinship Learning and Collaboration
27.06.2024

Kinship Learning and Collaboration

We recently brought together organisations to host an event looking at where kinship care currently is in Scotland and where it needs to be to support young people and their wider families to thrive.     The kinship care landscape in Scotland “We need to do more for kinship carers and children”    Since 2016, Inspiring

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The Power of Sport and Physical Activity since the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
26.06.2024

The Power of Sport and Physical Activity since the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

Earlier this month, some of the  Inspiring Scotland Thrive Outdoors team, alongside partners   hosted a workshop at the Power of Sport and Physical Activity Conference. The conference, held at Easterhouse Community Hub, marked 10 years since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, and looked to celebrate the power of sport and physical activity for people to

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