Self-directed Support empowers people to be equal partners in their care and support decisions and to participate fully in all aspects of life. Support in the Right Direction funds organisations across Scotland to deliver independent support to people and carers accessing social care, and to support them to exercise choice and control over that care.
We believe everyone should have control over their own life. Some people need additional support and care and require help to make important decisions and exercise that control.
Inspiring Scotland is the Scottish Government’s delivery partner for the Support in the Right Direction programme. The aim of SiRD is to increase the delivery of independent support for people who require social care. Self-directed Support is Scotland’s mainstream approach to social care.
With SiRD funding, 31 projects across 31 local authority areas in Scotland, are delivering independent support to people and carers accessing social care, and to support them to exercise this choice and control. As Fund managers, Inspiring Scotland will support the performance management, monitoring and evaluation of these projects.
Since October 2018, projects will work alongside Health & Social Care partnerships to provide information, help and advice about social care options, working with people and carers to identify personal goals, and brokering access to services and community supports. Projects are also providing advocacy to help people with social care assessments, facilitating peer networks, and support to manage personal social care budgets and employ assistants. A full list of funded projects can be found here.
The SiRD funding programme comes at the concluding end of implementation of Scottish Government’s 10-year Self-directed Support Strategy.
Inspiring Scotland previously supported the Scottish Government’s Self Direction Support Funds between 2015 and 2018.
SiRD’s latest portfolio day was held virtually in late 2020. Here are some of the highlights, showcasing the fund activity of the SiRD programme, what funded charities have been up to, and their continued impact.
The latest ‘Support in the Right Direction’ progress update is now available. Read more about what funded projects have been doing and how they have continued to provide much needed support.
Find out moreFind out more about the different ways Self-directed Support can work and what services are available.
Find out moreInspiring Scotland will work directly with projects to support delivery, reporting, learning and sustainability. The programme offers the opportunity for projects to work alongside national partners to champion and promote independent support showing how it enables better outcomes for social care users and communities.
programme logic modelIn February 2021, the report of the Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland was published. The report refers to the value of independent support and advocacy which SiRD projects, and others, provide.
Download the findingsAdvocacy Orkney provides people and their carers with independent advocacy on Self-directed Support in Orkney. This includes helping people to articulate their needs, engage in their care planning, ensure their care meets their needs, self-advocate, explore local availability and develop person specifications when employing Personal Assistants. The project also delivers information sessions and will develop
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Advocacy Service Aberdeen provides people and their carers with independent advocacy on Self-directed Support in Aberdeen. This includes helping people to: identify and develop personal outcome plans; prepare for, express their views at and participate in assessments and reviews; challenge decisions; access services and identify solutions to meet their outcomes and manage a social care
Learn MoreAdvocacy Western Isles provides people and their carers with independent advocacy on Self-directed Support in Comhairle nan Eilan Siar. This includes pre-assessment information and awareness raising, support throughout the care assessment process and help to identify personal outcomes, understand and choose an option, set up a social care package, access community-based services, manage finances and
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