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Health, Social Care Support and Integration Policy Panel

27/9/2018

Do you think your ideas and lived experience of adult social care support could make a difference to how decisions are made in Scotland in the future? We do! If you do too, join us to help Inclusion Scotland set the agenda, inform decisions and shape
adult health and social care support services in the future.

We are very pleased to be able to offer this new voluntary role for people who have lived experience of needing adult social care support to use their knowledge to help shape how adult social care support may be delivered in the future.
This exciting pilot project is being funded by the Scottish Government to make sure that people are at the heart of good decision making as they are the experts in their own experiences.
The main purposes of this new role are to:

Share your experiences of using or trying to use adult social care support in Scotland.
Put forward ideas and solutions to issues raised about adult social care support.
Respond to policy ideas that the Scottish Government or other agencies want to get your feedback on.
Help us design and promote a new way of working that can be used by decision makers in Scotland to shape policies and services in Scotland.

When decision makers who run services and the people who use the services plan and design the services together it is called co-production. This is your opportunity to influence the design, delivery and evaluation of how adult social care support works in Scotland through this co-production Policy Panel.

Click here for application information and an application form!

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Unified Rugby at Trust Rugby International

13/9/2018

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There’s a Place for Everyone at Howe Rugby

Regular training for Fife Clan unified rugby team now takes place on a Wednesday evening at Duffus Park in Cupar, please see attached.

Members of unified rugby teams across Scotland are coming along to run a taster training session at 12 noon on Sunday 16th September at Duffus Park in Cupar and then playing a match against Howe of Fife Knights at 2pm. This is a great opportunity to give unified rugby a try and then watch a game. It’s also a chance to ask questions and have some fun.

Unified rugby utilises a coloured scrum cap system where the colour determines whether a player can be tackled or not. You can find out more athttp://www.trustrugby.org/.

We are recruiting players with and without learning and physical disabilities as well as established players who are interested in playing alongside them in an ‘enabler’ role.

We are also looking to have Dundee Dragons wheelchair rugby team there on the day.

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A new SDS Co-ordinator to guide SDS Options Fife

12/9/2018

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Ian Fricker

A new SDS Co-ordinator to guide SDS Options Fife has been announced!

From residential and Day Care Management to the Health Sector and being part of the integration team for SDS whilst working as a Learning and development advisor for SSSC, Ian Fricker brings with him 35 years of experience and knowledge working in a range of Disability organisations.

Being centrally involved from the beginning and on the Board, Ian feels passionate about his job and holds the organisation close to his heart since co-founding it 13 years ago.

He will oversee the organisations day to day running and has taken over from Jackie Morrison. Previously Jackie created a successful organisation with a good reputation of supporting disabled people and their housing needs. The SDS addition needs to restructure to grow and develop towards a Centre for Inclusive Living to support disabled people in Fife to practice Independent Living in all its aspects.

Ian’s experience brings a participatory approach to work with Disabled People and a belief that we need a structural and systematic change to bring about an inclusive and accessible culture which only comes about with the participation and sharing of perspectives around the current systems that support Independent Living.

Ian hopes to support the tremendous work the team have been doing and particularly develop the SDS Options (Fife) service to provide Disabled People the choice, control and flexibility that matters to them in their support.

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