Resources

Co-design tools can be used to enable people to discover other peoples' perspectives, develop and define ideas and deliver those ideas. We sometimes use the Design Council's Double Diamond as one…

A tool for practitioners to explore a vision for the future of care for older people.

A workshop process to introduce care home staff to caring conversations.

Cards to encourage people who access support to record beautiful practice that has touched them.

Cards which show a series of snapshots of what life in an outcomes-focused care home might look like.

Lessons that can be applied to any collaborative project and should be used as ‘food for thought’ to help plan productive partnerships.

A series of exercises to be done with management teams, staff and people who access support.

A tool to create a SWOT analysis, an action plan and develop a service story.

Explores the impact of welfare reform – in a climate of austerity and cuts – on key client groups and its consequent effect on the social services workforce in Scotland.

Defines what peer support roles are and what they mean for services and the evidence for their use in mental health services.