Sign up HERE to show your organisation supports Human Rights with Scottish Care.

Scottish Care is responsible for producing evidence, reports and support for Human Rights within social care.

Scottish Care produced the Convention on The Rights of Residents in Care Homes for Adults and Older People as well as the Convention on The Rights of Adults and Older People Receiving Care at Home or Housing Support.

We developed both of these Conventions together with the people whose rights they are designed to protect and promote. We have their assurance that the articles collectively express the basic and minimum rights that individuals should expect to achieve.

For us at Scottish Care, this means that, if resourced, supported and embedded these Conventions can go a long way to improving the quality of life for adults and older people receiving care services.

Who can sign up?

In terms of who can endorse the Convention- everyone and anyone who works in health and social care can sign up.

In doing so, you are not only accepting the terms of the Convention but committing, as much as you can, to embed them in practice. You are showing your support for care that protects and promotes human rights. This means care that guarantees dignity and worth; that promotes autonomy, equality and participation and assures freedom from discrimination.

There’s no regulation behind it- and that is where these differ from the new National Care Standards. We see these Conventions as complimentary to the current national agenda and a way to help shape practice towards a human rights based approach.

Sign up now

If you are operating in a Care Home setting please click here.

If you are delivering Care at Home or Housing Support services please click here.

What happens after I sign up?

After signing up, your name will be displayed by Scottish Care on our website as one of our partners who have committed to providing care which respects and promotes human rights. If you provide an email address, you will also be sent a certificate electronically which you can print and display proudly.

Fitness to Practise (SSSC)

The SSSC are one of our partner organisations who will be holding an interactive session at the Care Home Conference, working through case scenarios to consider the issue of Fitness to Practise with particular focus on the new revised SSSC Codes of Practice for workers.

The scenarios will be based on themes and learning from casework within the Fitness to Practise Department. What the new national dementia strategy might mean for care homes.(Alzheimer Scotland)

Henry Simmons, Chief Executive of Alzheimer Scotland will explore the impact that our national dementia strategies have had in transforming dementia policy and practice, considering what Alzheimer Scotland believes must be delivered in the new strategy to truly ensure the best quality of care and support for people living with dementia and their families from the point of diagnosis through to advanced care and end of life.

Buy Tickets for the 2016 Scottish Care – Care Home Conference here

Insight Sessions Scottish Care: Care Home Conference 2016 Spiritual Care

Jenny Henderson will be delivering this insight session at the  Scottish Care: Care Home Conference focussing on ‘Spiritual Care’.

In Jenny’s own words :  “There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional, and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but, unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.”

Inspired by Rumer Godden’s  A House with Four Rooms. Which room do your residents live in most of the time?
The insight group with explore together how we can help to embed in person centred care that everyone we care for has the opportunity to ‘visit’ their spiritual room.

Look out for award winning film-maker Duncan Cowles on BBC Reporting Scotland this evening Friday 14th October.

Scottish Care recently commissioned Duncan to make a series of films in and around North Merchiston Care Home in Edinburgh as part of Luminate, Scotland’s Creative Ageing Festival.

The films entitled ‘Directed by North Merchiston’  features residents aged between 80 and 102. The residents involved are Edith Emerson, May Reid, John Moore, Margaret Henderson and Charlie Dolan – the eldest at 102.

You can see previews of the films here  www.duncancowles.com/category/films

Duncan will give the films their premiere at the Scottish Care Conference on Friday 18th November at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow.

Delegates are encouraged to purchase their tickets now for the 2016 Scottish Care : Care Home Conference which will take place at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow on Friday 18th November.

The biggest event of its kind in the country, this year the theme of the conference is “Care homes at the heart” and we will welcome hundreds of delegates from around the country to the event to celebrate care, to learn and to grow together.

The Conference this year features a brand new addition to the programme;  the ‘insight sessions’ in which delegates choose to attend an engaging workshop focussing on particular aspects and perspectives of care. These insight sessions are delivered by organisations including Alzheimer Scotland, the Care Inspectorate, Luminate, SCCC, Iriss and Scottish Care.

For more information on the Insight sessions please see here. 

The programme for the 2016 Care Home Conference and Exhibition is available at

www.scottishcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CareHomeConference-Programme-2.pdf

Tickets are available online at

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/care-homes-at-the-heart-national-care-home-conference-2016-tickets-27023985468

or by contacting Scottish Care Head Office on 01292 270 240 or by emailing [email protected]

A reminder to our members that Scottish Care are currently carrying out a Membership Census Survey throughout the country.

This census is being carried out to ensure that we are able to continue to develop and improve the efficiency of our communications and membership services.

Our Local Integration Leads’ and Scottish Care Team Members are carrying out the census;  communicating directly with services by visiting them, speaking with them by telephone and collecting data by email.

Scottish Care appreciates the cooperation and support of our members in assisting us to carrying out the census.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely,

Jamie McGeechan

Communications and Events Officer

Scottish Care

01292 270240

New models, new care possibilities

Friday 21 October 2016
11am – 3pm
Renfield Centre, Bath St, Glasgow

The landscape of health and social care in Scotland is changing:

• The formation of health & social care partnerships is changing the way services are planned and delivered locally. Locality planning requires an in-depth understanding of both the local market and local needs, and a range of options must be available to individuals to support their health and social care journey.
• Processes are underway to reform care home and care at home services, particularly in relation to their commissioning and procurement. This requires consideration to be given to what we want care home and homecare services to deliver in the future.
• Self-directed support means care packages will be assessed, purchased and delivered in a much more personalised way, meaning services may have to configure their provision differently
• The National Care Standards are changing to reflect a human rights-based approach to assessing someone’s experiences and outcomes of care and support.

All of these changes mean services are considering how they can develop and innovate for the future. Some have already got learning and good practice to share, others have ideas about how they would like to develop their provision, whilst others are unclear how to ensure their services are fit for the future or are experiencing barriers to innovation.

At whatever stage of their innovation journey, it is essential that providers’ knowledge, experience and ideas are central to shaping local planning.

Scottish Care will therefore be hosting a New Models of Care event for Scottish Care Members on Friday 21st October, 11am-3pm, at the Renfield Centre in Glasgow. This interactive event will provide a number of opportunities:
• To hear about policy and practice developments taking place in the social care sector
• To share learning and experiences of change and innovative practice with other care home, care at home & housing support providers
• To consider what sort of care the independent sector might want to deliver in the future
• To identify the conditions needed for development to take place
• To witness the launch of a new Learning & Innovation platform on the Scottish Care website
• To be at the forefront of shaping independent sector care provision for the future
This is the first in a series of Scottish Care events and initiatives focusing on innovation and service development.

Places are limited to one person per care service.

To book places, go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-care-new-models-of-care-event-tickets-28326763111