Over 2011 – 2015, we ran a project called ‘Getting There’.

The project was active at the time of the development of the Scottish Government’s Social Care Bill & explored what self-directed support (SDS) means for smaller user-led organisations. It did this by producing helpful resources and creating and developing opportunities for smaller user-led organisations to meet, share resources and learn from each other.

We’ve gone back now to review the content that we gathered over the course of this project and pull it together from the old Getting There website on to this website.

Self-directed Support

We’d like to take this opportunity to highlight the set of resources which we developed as part of this project & which we hope will remain relevant and useful to anyone interested in SDS and how it can work for them.

Read the final Getting There report for the full story on “What we did and the difference we made”

See our new Getting There project page for access to all the resources, including accessible papers looking at different models of SDS, exploring SDS and mental health, and SDS and older people, for example.

Micro-enterprises

The Getting There groups highlighted that there were difficulties in finding choices for some people, such as those in rural and remote areas. We decided to find out more about the potential of micro-enterprises to see if that was an option to offer more choice for both smaller user-led organisations, and for individuals; and to identify and fill gaps in services.

Through the project and afterwards, we developed a range of useful information to highlight the option of micro-enterprises and support people to get started with their own. This information will be available shortly on this website through a new Micro-enterprises and Social Innovations project page which will highlight the previous work we’ve done and provide a space to share our new developing work in this area – watch this space…!