Camphill Scotland, in consultation with our members, identified 5 key improvements that could be made to the Scottish Government’s proposed ‘Supporting disabled children, young people and their Families’ resource. The Scottish Government stated that This consultation will be one step towards developing a central, inclusive source of information that seeks to ease the pressure on […]
Consultations
Minister for Social Security visits Camphill
Jeanne Freeman MSP, the Minister for Social Security, visited Camphill Newton Dee recently. This provided the Minister with an opportunity to find out first hand how Camphill in Scotland’s approaches are helping to promote social inclusion, and to ensuring that people with learning disabilities and other support needs feel valued, respected and have a sense […]
Top 3 recommendations to tackle social isolation
Camphill Scotland has submitted a response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on A Connected Scotland: Tackling social isolation and loneliness and building stronger social connections. Our top 3 points call for 1. Significant cultural change We believe that significant cultural change is necessary within our society, and within communities across Scotland, to reduce social isolation and […]
Evidence submitted to Social Security Committee
Camphill Scotland has submitted evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Social Security Committee for its Stage 1 consideration of the Social Security (Scotland) Bill. This legislation will introduce a social security system for Scotland in relation to social security benefits recently devolved to the Scottish Parliament, and to the devolved aspects of reserved social security benefits. […]
Evidence on Social Security (Scotland) Bill
Camphill Scotland has submitted evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Social Security Committee for its Stage 1 consideration of the Social Security (Scotland) Bill. This legislation will introduce a social security system for Scotland in relation to social security benefits recently devolved to the Scottish Parliament, and to the devolved aspects of reserved social security benefits. […]
Learning Provision for Children and Young People with Complex Additional Support Needs
Camphill Scotland has submitted a response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on Scotland’s Strategy for the Learning Provision for Children and Young People with Complex Additional Support Needs. Potential to improve outcomes for children and young people Camphill Scotland welcomed the strategy, noting that we believe that aligning Scotland’s Ten Year Strategy for the Learning Provision for […]
What’s in a Name?
Camphill Scotland has written to Scotland’s Census about the way Camphill communities are categorised for the purposes of the national census. We think they should be categorised as ”˜intentional communities’ and not ”˜communal establishments’ as they are at present. This is an important issue as the census data is used by national decision makers to […]
Consultation on health and social care integration
We submitted evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Health and Sport Committee’s inquiry into the extent to which the Integration Authorities (IAs) are doing enough to involve patients, carers, the third sector and other stakeholders in the design and future delivery of health and social care in their local area. Our evidence focused on ways in which the IAs could […]
Children and Young People’s Act draft guidance (continuing care) (September 2015)
We suggested some changes to the wording of the guidance, to ensure that disabled children and young people who are looked after have access to a full range of choices about their continuing care. View response to Children and Young People’s Act draft guidance (continuing care) (September 2015)
Review of the Scottish National Care Standards (December 2015)
We endorsed the human rights-based approach to setting out principles that people should expect from care services, highlighting ways in which these fit neatly with the Camphill approach. View review of the Scottish National Care Standards
