Camphill Scotland’s Influencing Group will hold its inaugural meeting at Camphill Blair Drummond today. A good turnout is expected from member communities at the group, which will focus on making the most of opportunities to maximise the impact of Camphill in Scotland in policy development and in legislation. For more information contact our Policy & […]
Disability rights
MP supports call to suspend Universal Credit
Camphill Scotland, who joined Citizens Advice Scotland and other organisations in calling on the UK Government to halt the roll out of Universal Credit was glad to receive support from Drew Hendry, MP. Hendry told us that he was “extremely pleased to read your recent joint letter to the UK Minister in regards to the […]
Call to suspend Universal Credit
Camphill Scotland has today joined Citizens Advice Scotland and other organisations in calling on the UK Government to halt the roll out of Universal Credit until the problems which many claimants have experienced can be fixed. These have included the significant delays in the time between people’s initial claim and receiving payment, which has left […]
Back to Bedlam? Key Report on Learning Disability
The Centre for Welfare Reform has published a damning report on the state of learning disability practice and policy in England. It is very much worth reading from a Scottish perspective too. The author of the report, Robin Jackson, sets out to show that: Successive governments in the UK have ignored people with a learning […]
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 […]
