Support in the Right Direction
Carers Link East Dunbartonshire helps unpaid carers to understand and explore their self-directed support options as part of their caring role, have a voice and make informed choices around services and activities that could improve both their own and the cared-for person’s quality of life. Carers are supported to develop an Adult Carer Support Plan with the project liaising on their behalf with social work. Peer support activities bring together carers at the start of their social care journey, or those already managing care packages with their family, to share experiences and learning.
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
Read MoreWe 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
Read MoreEarlier 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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