'No one direction' for commissioning differently?
How NHS Highland is changing the way that social care is commissioned.
Published in
on 24 Jan 2023
New models of care at home
Iriss Outline
Evidence summary that provides an overview of new models of care at home and the evidence supporting their use.
Published in
on 24 Nov 2021
Self-directed support: ten years on
Insight 61
A summary of the evidence from policy and scrutiny activity, and recommendations for the future direction of SDS policy and practice.
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on 6 May 2021
Personal experiences of managing an Option 1 support package
Dr Jim Elder Woodward OBE describes his personal experiences of self-directed support during Covid-19.
Published in
on 8 Jul 2020
Self-directed support and workforce development
ESSS Outline
Looks at the limited available evidence on how the social care workforce in Scotland can be further developed to deliver self-directed support.
Published in
on 17 Apr 2018
SDS brokerage in rural Scotland
ESSS Outline
Explores the challenges facing local authorities when seeking to implement brokerage models of self directed support in rural Scottish communities.
Published in
on 24 Jan 2018
People seek a life, not a service
Kerry Musselbrook from Iriss shares her thoughts on the Our Shared Ambition event which was held in September 2017.
Published in
on 5 Dec 2017
It's SDS Awareness Week! Read the latest on Pilotlight
It's SDS Awareness Week (#SDSBlether) so we want you to know the latest about our Pilotlight project.
Pilotlight is working with co-design teams of people who use and deliver services across Scotland to design pathways to self-directed support.
Using a design approach, Pilotlight aims to demonstrate how to design support for seldom heard groups, provide more personalised and appropriate services and increase the marketplace of support providers.
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on 13 Jun 2016
The Art of the Possible
Pilotlight is a partner in an event - Capacity Building: The Art of the Possible - organised by Providers and Personalisation to share learning around self-directed support.
In 2012, the Scottish Government Self-directed Support team funded projects aimed at building provider capacity to deliver more personalised support. As this round of projects come to a close they are getting together to share what they have learned about what has worked (and what hasn't.)
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on 9 Mar 2015
Pilotlight resources: designing pathways to self-directed support
The Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 goes live on the 1st April 2014 and the implementation of the National Strategy is well underway across Scotland. Pilotlight is contributing to these preparations.
We are working with co-design teams of people who use and deliver services across Scotland to design pathways to self-directed support. Using a design approach, the project is demonstrating how to implement support for seldom heard groups, provide more personalised and appropriate services and increase the marketplace of support providers.
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on 8 Nov 2013
