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Forward as ENABLE Group
A year ago when we entered our first lockdown, no one could have predicted where we would be today. The uncertainty has been felt keenly by families across the country, and especially by our most vulnerable citizens. Our objective as an organisation was to keep our staff and the people…
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Cross Party Group on Learning Disability urges Scottish Government to take urgent action to uphold the human rights of people who have a learning disability during Covid-19
ENABLE Scotland is the secretariat for the Cross Party Group on Learning Disability in the Scottish Parliament. The Cross Party Group (CPG) meets four times a year, and considers issues that impact on the human rights of people who have a learning disability in Scotland. Members of the Cross Party…
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ENABLE Scotland calls for greater support for people who have a learning disability to access COVID-19 vaccinations
Following the publication of mortality data for people who have a learning disability in Scotland as a result of COVID-19, ENABLE Scotland is calling for greater support for this population to access the vaccination in Priority Group 6 in line with current JCVI guidelines. As of this week, data is…
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ENABLE Scotland concerned at Scotland’s COVID-19 mortality rates and delay in data
Evidence from Public Health England first published in the Summer of 2020 suggests that people who have a learning disability in England are 6 times more likely[1] to die as a result of COVID-19 than the general population. On 4th February 2021, the Scottish Learning Disability Observatory (SLDO) has published…
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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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