Support in the Right Direction
This partnership between Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living and The Action Group supports people who have a social care package across Edinburgh and the Lothians through peer support groups and learning opportunities to promote self-directed support. User led peer support groups help disabled people, older people, people with long-term health conditions, and carers to share their lived experience around self-directed support and generate collective mobilisation on issues affecting people’s lives and their experience of self-directed support. Training and workshop sessions are provided on SDS and related topics for social care users, care providers and local authorities. LCIL lead on delivery of the peer support groups, while The Action Group co-facilitates peer support for carers from BAME communities with LCIL.
Today (30 April 2025), the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (PIMH) fund team published a report sharing insights from four years of managing funding to support parents’ and infants’ mental health and wellbeing across Scotland. Inspiring Scotland managed £3.8 million of Scottish Government funding through the PIMH Fund between October 2020 and September 2024. This
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More funding has been announced for the Scottish Government’s Autistic Adult Support Fund and is available to third sector organisations providing services to autistic adults – promoting wellbeing and helping them to understand what neurodivergence means for them. Since 2023, the Scottish Government has allocated £1.5 million to 15 organisations, including those helping autistic adults
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More funding has been announced for the Scottish Government’s Autistic Adult Support Fund and is available to third sector organisations providing services to autistic adults – promoting wellbeing and helping them to understand what neurodivergence means for them. Since 2023, the Scottish Government has allocated £1.5 million to 15 organisations, including those helping autistic adults
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