Support in the Right Direction
Circles Network Advocacy provides people and their carers with independent advocacy on social care and self-directed support in Inverclyde and Moray, to ensure their voices are heard and they are fully involved throughout their journey. This includes providing relevant information on available options, facilitating communication with social work, help to prepare for assessments, construct support plans, become an employer or find support. Volunteer advocates with lived experience help people to make informed choices and local information sessions raise awareness of self-directed support.
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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