Resources

Support Choices – booklet

Published 2019. Support Choices is a project that helps people living in Perth and Kinross to get the social care and support that they need. The project began in Highland Perthshire. The project is a partnership between Outside the Box and the Care and Wellbeing Co-op. This complements an initiative based at the Carers’ Hub at PKAVS, which is giving family carers more information about how they can use the Self-Directed Support arrangements and get more support for the person they care for. Both projects are f

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Mums Returning To Work – Good Practice Guide

Published 2019. In partnership with early years childcare providers, Outside the Box has produced this guide and online training to inform businesses on the practical steps to support mums returning to work. For more information visit: www.mumsreturningtowork.org

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A Guide To Asking Your MSP or Councillor – and other people – for support

Published 2019. Sometimes things in our community don’t work as well as they should, or we can see a gap in services that people need. In our Local People Linking project we have been talking with people about what issues affect them. All of the people we spoke to said that they wanted to make things better in their local communities, but lots of people didn’t know who to contact.

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Human Rights – How To Run Your Own Training Session

Published 2019. By working with different community groups, we learned how to run successful learning sessions about human rights. We are sharing what we did so people can hold similar sessions in their communities.

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Sensory Changes and Dementia: Sense of Taste and Smell

Published 2018. When you are living with dementia, sometimes your sense of taste and/or smell can change. This booklet has been created alongside people who live with dementia and offers advice and information.

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Mums Returning to Work Guide

Published 2018. This guide outlines some of the issues women are facing in their return to work. It gives information about support networks and shares some of their experiences – which we hope will give some emotional and practical reassurance to other women in these circumstances.

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