- SBC Initiatives
- Scottish Initiatives
- Quality Strategy
- Carers Strategy
- Children and Families
- Community Hospitals
- E-Health Strategy
- End of Life
- Housing
- Inclusion
- Inequalities (Health)
- Joint Improvement Team
- Long-Term Conditions
- Mental Health
- Nursing in the Community
- Older People
- Personal Care, Adult Care and Support
- Pharmacy
- Remote and Rural
- Social Work (Changing Lives)
- Telecare
- Transport
- 18 Week Referral to Treatment Standard
Personal Care, Adult Care and Support
The need for better protection for adults at risk responds to a growing awareness that adults suffer harm, and for effective responses to it. As with protection of children and young people, a key area for development is in partnership working. Beyond legislative change - the Adult Support & Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 requires co-operation between statutory agencies - developmental work undertaken by the JIT has indicated good practice in risk assessment and protection planning, however, the content of such assessments and plans are very often neither rigorous nor comprehensive.
Self-directed support in Scotland is part of the mainstream of social care delivery, targeted at empowering people and putting the principles of independent living into practice. It enables individuals to direct the care or support they need to live more independently at home and can be instead of, or in addition to, services that might be arranged by their local authority. These might be
- community care (including personal and social care needs)
- children's services,
- housing support services
- equipment and temporary adaptations.
This work is shifting the balance of care towards a fuller partnership between professionals and service users. The Scottish Government website with links to this work as well as other adult support and protection issues can be found here.