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Advocacy Orkney

Advocacy Orkney provides the local community with SDS advocacy services, enabling them to participate fully in their assessment process and make informed decisions about their SDS options and rights. This also involves supporting a client to increase their confidence, ability to speak up, to be active contributors to their lives as opposed to passive recipients

Advocacy Service Aberdeen

Advocacy Service Aberdeen provides independent advocacy support to people and/or their carers who have a care and support need and wish to have this assessed by the local authority. The project also provides independent advocacy support to those who already have a care budget and want support to look at alternative options around how this

Advocacy Western Isles

Advocacy Western Isles provides independent advocacy throughout the Western Isles, to carers/the cared for who require support to access self-directed support. Trained/experience and specialised Advocacy Workers in Lewis/Harris and Uist/Barra support clients to understand information, working alongside them, enabling them to make informed choices about personal outcomes and to take greater control of their care/the

Ayrshire Independent Living Network (AiLN)

Ayrshire Independent Living Network supports people who are eligible for a social care budget in North, South and East Ayrshire to manage their support package. This includes training to develop the relevant skills for managing their social care arrangements, help with the recruitment and management of Personal Assistants, PA induction, and support for people with

Braemar Care

Braemar Care provides a service identifying and linking vulnerable and elderly people living in Braemar with local carers to employ, to support them to live independently. It also uses volunteers to deliver preventative services to promote independence and deliver workshops and surgeries to promote Self-directed Support.

Capability Scotland

Capability Scotland provides advice and support in Dumfries and Galloway on self-directed support and social care. This includes support to recruit PAs and any ongoing support required, maintaining a database of PAs seeking employment, advising employers on indemnity cover, providing support with direct payments awards and raising awareness of self-directed support in the community.

Carr-Gomm Community Contacts

Carr Gomm provides independent support for people and carers accessing social care in Argyll & Bute and the Highland local authority areas. Community Contacts in Argyll & Bute provides support at any point in the self-directed support process including, assistance to understand SDS process locally, provision of a 7 step guide and information on legislation

Circles Network Inverclyde

Circles Network Inverclyde provides people and their carers with independent advocacy on social care and self-directed support in Inverclyde. This includes pre-assessment support to help people understand the local process, and the options available. It helps people to think through and articulate their needs and develop support plans, and provides information on local support organisations,

Community Brokerage Network

Community Brokerage Network provides brokerage services for people living in East, North and South Ayrshire. This includes providing information on self-directed support, helping people to plan and design their support packages and supporting people with social care needs who are not eligible for formal support, to connect into informal community based support. www.communitybrokeragenetwork.co.uk @CommBrokNetwork

Cornerstone

Cornerstone SDS provides an SDS Advisor in Aberdeen City & Moray Council. The SDS advisor in Aberdeen city provides an independent advice and support service along with support to option 1 employers. In Moray the SDS advisor delivers an independent advice and support service. Support includes 1:1 meetings with clients offering impartial advice on their

Disabled Person’s Housing Service

Disabled Person’s Housing Service supports disabled people and their families in Fife to understand and access social care through self-directed support. This includes one-to-one support, information and advice to help individuals understand local SDS criteria and processes and prepare for social work assessments. The project also ensures individuals are aware of wider opportunities for support

Dundee Carers Centre (SDS Service Dundee & Angus)

Dundee Carers Centre delivers a Self-Directed Support Service across Dundee & Angus supporting disabled people and carers. A brokerage service is provided helping people to identify and develop personal outcomes and decide which of the four options to use, providing them with information and support through the process. This includes helping people to recruit and

East Ayrshire Carers Centre

East Ayrshire Carers Centre supports carers and their families across East Ayrshire by explaining the self-directed support options available for both carers and the cared for person, ensuring they fully understand the choices available to them and can identify the support required to fulfil their outcomes. This includes completing Adult Carer Support Plans or Young

Enable Scotland

Through Support in the Right Direction 2021, ENABLE supports people with learning disabilities and other social care users in Fife with Self-directed Support. This includes one to one awareness raising, support to understand and develop personal outcomes, identifying creative solutions to meet outcomes, support with assessments and reviews, advocacy, helping people to organise their support and

Encompass (BDPA)

Borders Direct Payment Agency (BDPA) (trading as Encompass) facilitates a local SDS Forum, a consultation group led by social care users which raises issues and develops solutions with the local council relating to self-directed support, and provides pre-assessment support to explain the self-directed support options, local charging policy and eligibility criteria in the Scottish Borders.

Equal Say

Equal Say provides 1:1 advocacy support for people aged between 18 to 64 years in North Lanarkshire, who are going through the process of requesting, being assessed or reviewed for self directed support care. This supports people to fully understand and participate in the process by supporting and strengthening their voice, improving their understanding of

Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living

Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living provides pre-assessment support with social care and self-directed support in Glasgow, South Lanarkshire and East Dunbartonshire. This includes awareness raising workshops; information provision; 1:1 assessment preparation sessions and budget information, advice and support; enhanced payroll support; PA employer training; DigiKnow digital training to support people to access and managed social

Independent Living Association Forth Valley (SDS Forth Valley)

SDS Forth Valley (Independent Living Association) provides 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 SDS, supporting them to be prepared, contribute throughout the process and explore their options. This is achieved through

Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living

The SiRD project complements the core work of LCiL and the Independent Living Team by delivering high quality peer support groups and workshops to disabled people, older people, parent carers and people with long term conditions. The project aims that through providing information, making connections with others and sharing lived experience, people will feel more

MECOPP

MECOPP supports minority ethnic people and their carers with Self-directed Support in Edinburgh and the Lothians. This includes information provision on Self-directed Support principles and options and support to identify personal outcomes, prepare for and participate in a social work assessment, access community services, set up, and manage a funded social care package. The project

Perth & Kinross Association for Voluntary Service

PKAVS Self-Directed Support Project provides information and advice around Self-Directed Support to Carers and partner agencies. The project prepares Carers and their families for social work assessments, assists Carers and their families in understanding and identifying their own needs/wishes, provides support with PA recruitment, assists with sourcing care/support providers, supports with advocating/dealing with issues that

SDS Forum East Renfrewshire

SDS Forum East Renfrewshire provides an independent information, advice and support service on self-directed support for people in East Renfrewshire. This includes information and drop in sessions and 1:1 support, PA employment services, Option 1 budget management and support, peer support groups and training for people who use social care budgets, social workers and other

Shetland Community Connections

Shetland Community Connections provides person-centred planning to help people identify personal outcomes and assets, support people to make connections in their community to achieve their outcomes through paid for or natural supports, encourage creative and innovative ways to use budgets and provide support to set up and manage option 1 budgets including recruiting PAs, purchasing

Support Choices

Support Choices delivers independent information and advice. The focus of the support will be around the development of Self-Directed Support and the 4 SDS Options. Independent information is provided in a range of formats to individuals about the choices that have in social care and support. This information is made available through public events and

The Advisory Group

The Advisory Group supports people with learning disabilities and their families in Stirling, Clackmannanshire and Renfrewshire. This is through: Outcomes for Living training to help people understand what outcomes are, identify their own outcomes and learn about self-directed support; Outcome Focused Support planning to develop individual graphic support plans, with a budget (where applicable); exploring

The Advocacy Project

The Advocacy Project provides people and their carers with independent advocacy on Self-directed Support in Glasgow, East Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire. This includes support to understand and identify personal outcomes, understand the SDS process and legislation, participate in assessments and reviews and access community-based services. The project also helps people to access local services that

Thistle Foundation: Thistle Health & Wellbeing

Thistle Health and Wellbeing Young People’s project aims to support young people and their families with their transition journey into adulthood. Young people from across Scotland, although predominantly from Edinburgh, Midlothian and East Lothian, aged 16-25, who are living with long-term health conditions, disabilities or additional support needs are eligible for support. The project helps

VOCAL

VOCAL provides a brokerage service for carers in Edinburgh and Midlothian, to increase their confidence to take up Self-directed Support for themselves and the person they support. This includes providing information on Self-directed Support options, identifying personal outcomes, preparing for assessments and reviews, developing creative solutions to achieve outcomes, peer support and a training and

Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire and CCB & CS partners

Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire and Community Capacity Building and Carer Support Programme partners, support people to access social and community care in North Lanarkshire. The project compliments and adds to existing local social work provision by focussing on one-to-one support for people who are not eligible for a social-care budget to ensure they are better

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