Resources

Tips for creating welcoming communities

Published 2020. We all want to belong and feel welcomed in our community. These tips share suggestions from people, communities and organisations we work with about ways to make communities welcoming. Nearly all communities have a mix of people living in them, including people who have just moved there and people who have lived there for a long time. And people living in communities can help to make them warm, welcoming and inclusive places to live.

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Voluntary Pledge on Care Standards – Our assessment

Published 2020. A checklist to help community groups and care providers who are not covered by the formal Standards plan and develop what they are doing.

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Voluntary Pledge – Guide to assessing how good a job you are doing

Published 2020. This is a guide to help looking community groups and care providers who are not covered by the formal Standards can show that they also reflect the principles and are giving good support to people.

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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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Grandparents’ top tips

Published 2018. These tips were put together after we had discussions with grandparents as we know many grandparents now spend a lot of time caring for their grandchildren. These tips were created as a part of our Families Project.

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