Outside the Box have two new reports to share from ‘Getting There’: a project which aimed to help smaller, user-led providers be more ready for the implementation of Self-directed support
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Scotland’s Chief Statistician today published ‘Free Personal and Nursing Care, Scotland 2013-14’. This statistics release presents information on the number of people benefiting from free personal care and free nursing
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The Self-directed Support (SDS) and Gypsy/Travellers research report presents the findings of a one-year research project, funded by the Scottish Government, exploring the potential of SDS to meet the care and
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The Scottish Government has launched a new version of the Self-directed Support (SDS) website. Self-directed Support allows people, their carers and their families to make informed choices on what their
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A new website providing guidance to social care providers on self-directed support is now live. Providers and Personalisation has been working with providers from across Scotland to develop a national
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The Self Directed Support (SDS) web portal has been updated and new links to resources have been added since SDS legislation was introduced last year. The portal has been
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Ensuring that the health and wellbeing of Edinburgh’s half a million residents is protected is not a job that we take lightly. Edinburgh Council’s Health and Social Care department this
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An audit report in Scotland said that councils had started to make changes to social care, but progress in implementing self-directed support had been mixed among councils, and they had
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The new Social Care (Self-Directed Support)(Scotland) Act 2013 came into force last month and there are a new suite of materials and resources available to support it’s launch. You can
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Spending on free personal care for elderly people living at home in Scotland has increased by more than 160% since the flagship policy was introduced, with the bill reaching almost
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