Support in the Right Direction
Independent Living Association Forth Valley provides information and pre-assessment support with social care and self-directed support in Falkirk, Stirling and Clackmannanshire. This helps people to understand outcomes and support planning, the assessment process, and how human rights underpin self-directed support, helping them to be prepared, contribute throughout the process and explore their options. This is achieved through a combination of 1:1 support, group-based workshops and training, and peer 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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