We represent a diverse range of national and local stakeholders working to improve the implementation of Self-directed Support.
We believe that the insights of people who need social care support and unpaid carers are vital to improving SDS, and positive change cannot happen unless they are heard and included. We seek to amplify the voices of people with lived and loved experience in both local and national spaces.
We have a direct link with national and local government to enable us to most effectively influence, and at times co-produce, policy.
Current members of the National SDS Collaboration
The following organisations are currently represented on the National SDS Collaboration.
- Aberdeenshire Council
- Adult Social Care Standing Committee
- Ark Housing
- Autistic Knowledge Development
- Ayrshire Independent Living Network
- Care Inspectorate
- Carers Trust
- Carr Gomm Community Contacts
- CFO network / Glasgow City HSCP
- City of Edinburgh Council
- Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland (CCPS)
- Coalition of Carers in Scotland (COCIS)
- Community Brokerage Network
- Community Brokerage Scotland
- COSLA
- Disability Equality Scotland
- Dundee Carers’ Centre
- East Ayrshire Council
- East Ayrshire HSCP
- East Renfrewshire HSCP
- Edinburgh HSCP
- ENABLE Scotland
- Encompass Borders
- Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU)
- Glasgow Centre for Inclusive Living
- Glasgow Disability Alliance
- Glasgow HSCP
- Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (The Alliance)
- Healthcare Improvement Scotland
- IJB Chief Finance Officers Network
- In Control Scotland
- Inclusion Scotland
- Independent Living Fund Scotland
- Inspiring Scotland
- Key/Community Lifestyles
- Kirrie Connections
- Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living
- Moray Council
- National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi)
- People Led Policy Panel/Social Covenant Steering Group
- Personal Assistants Network Scotland (PANS)
- Personal Outcomes Network
- Quarriers
- Scotland Excel
- Scottish Association of Social Workers (SASW)
- Scottish Care
- Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities (SCLD)
- Scottish Government
- Scottish Government Dementia Policy team
- Scottish Government Models Of Care Team
- Scottish Government SDS Improvement team
- Scottish Government Workforce & Fair Work Division
- Scottish Government – Office of the Chief Social Work Advisor
- Scottish Sensory Hub
- Scottish Social Services Council
- SDS Forth Valley
- SDS Forum East Renfrewshire
- SDS Scotland
- Self Directed Futures
- Shetland Islands Council
- Sight Scotland and Sight Scotland Veterans
- Social Work Scotland SDS Practice Network
- Social Work Scotland SDS Project
- Urram
- Voice Of Carers Across Lothian (VOCAL)
Join us
Interested in joining the Collaboration? Contact us