Support in the Right Direction
This partnership between VOCAL and Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living (LCIL) supports carers and supported people at all stages of their social care journey in Edinburgh and Midlothian. VOCAL provides information and support to carers around preparing for assessments and reviews, managing care, informal advocacy to agree budget use and community brokerage to identify supports. LCIL supports carers and the cared for person to become employers, providing practical support and training to help them build their knowledge and confidence in this role.
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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