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ENABLE Scotland becomes the largest accredited social care provider in Scotland during Living Wage Week
ENABLE Scotland has become an accredited Living Wage employer, with more than 1,800 frontline care workers set for a pay rise to the real Living Wage. The new Living Wage rate of £9.50 per hour was announced on Monday as part of Living Wage Week (9-15 November 2020). The…
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ENABLE Scotland wins O2 technology award
October 14, 2020 Press releasesENABLE Scotland has won a prestigious award from telecommunications giant O2 for our frontline digital transformation programme. The O2 Blue Door Award, announced this morning at O2’s Blue Door Expo, is for ‘Use of technology to engage your employees’ and is one of only five Blue Door awards issued by…
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ENABLE CEO to help unleash the full potential of civil society
October 9, 2020 Press releasesTheresa Shearer, ENABLE Scotland’s CEO, is to join an influential group of people appointed as commissioners for the Law Family Commission on Civil Society. The commissioners, drawn from the private, public and third sector, will steer a 2-year programme of ground-breaking research into how best to unleash the full potential…
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The importance of partnerships
October 6, 2020 Case StudyOne of ENABLE Scotland’s most important successes has been the partnerships we’ve developed across the private, public and third sectors, which deliver significant value for the people we support. Breaking Barriers is an excellent example of this approach, involving ENABLE Scotland, the University of Strathclyde Business School and Scottish Power.…
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Rolling out Scotland’s new Contact Tracing App for all our Staff
September 10, 2020 Press releasesOn the day Scotland’s new ‘Protect Scotland’ coronavirus contact tracing app launched, ENABLE Scotland has rolled out the app to our entire workforce of over 2,200 people, who will be using it with immediate effect. The charity has taken this measure in order to protect our workforce, as well as…
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Supporting Families to Live the Life they Choose
At ENABLE Scotland, we believe in the power of individuals directing their own support and building supportive networks within their local communities. As a charity, we campaigned for the Social Care (Self-Directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013, and we are proud that our colleagues deliver and design social care support services…
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Supporting Family Carers
Lockdown has meant different things to many of us, and the lessons about how we live and work will have far reaching consequences for a long time to come. Everyone’s experience of lockdown has been, and will continue to be, different. For those families who have additional caring responsibilities, there…
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Shielding Far From Home
June 19, 2020 CEO blogAs I write this, we are now officially entering Phase 2 of the Scottish Government’s Routemap out of lockdown. From today, following 12 long weeks, we can now take the tentative steps back towards our loved ones. For many of the people we support who live in their own homes,…
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No Matter What – Perthshire
June 15, 2020 ENABLE Scotland BlogEach week throughout the Coronavirus pandemic, we have been focussing on #TalesFromTheFrontline as the country has paid tribute to key workers. We have heard stories of coming together; making creative changes; and providing support #NoMatterWhat We have been telling these stories through the words of our ENABLE Scotland Personal Assistants (PAs) from across…
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Living Our Values
June 12, 2020 ENABLE Scotland BlogI had always been very aware of ENABLE Scotland, and had noted the shift in their profile as a modern, vibrant charity in the social care sector over the last couple of years. So I was excited by the opportunity to move into the role of Director of Services and…
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