Support in the Right Direction
Shetland Community Connections provides independent information, advice and practical support with all aspects of self-directed support. This includes helping people to understand the process and their choices prior to an assessment and maximising the impact of any budget awarded. Person-centred planning helps people to identify personal outcomes and assets and identify creative and innovative ways to use budgets, with support provided to make community connections to achieve outcomes through paid for or natural supports. Support is also provided to set up and manage option 1 budgets including training and peer support on being a good employer.
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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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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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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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