Mental health

Developing peer support: from acorns to trees

Reflections on the journey

Last year we worked with Future Pathways, Voices for a Better Future and the Scottish Recovery Network to look at how we might co-design peer support for care survivors supported by Future Pathways.  If you aren't familiar with the term care survivors, it refers to people abused or neglected as children in the Scottish care system.

Peer support was something that care survivors had already identified that they wanted, to enhance what they were already receiving through individual support coordination, to help improve their own lives (and, of course, others).

Supported decision making

Insight 73

This Insight provides an overview of the policy and legislative background to supported decision making (SDM). It also provides a brief summary of research looking at how SDM may be approached and details the implications for social work practice…

Carers mental and physical health

ESSS Outline

Evidence summary that provides an overview of carers mental and physical health, with additional focus on finances and employment.