Older People Service Providers

The Older People’s Service Providers Forum is supported and serviced by EVOC in order that voluntary sector providers of services to older people in Edinburgh have a means to share issues of concern, to address those issues and to promote the interests of the members and services for older people they provide.

The membership is currently around forty agencies who operate mostly at a local level in their communities.  Membership is free and open to any local community or voluntary organisation providing services for older people in the Edinburgh area. The Forum meets every two or three months (depending on the level of activity and business), to discuss contemporary issues in a supportive environment. 

The Forum also  has a number of representative functions e.g. on the Strategy Development Group (SDG)  for Older People and a Day Services Review Group (both chaired by the City of Edinburgh Council Health and Social Care Department). Partnership issues and joint working feature high on the agenda and when appropriate, Council officers are invited to attend.  Topics of relevance such as legislative change, current practice and policy matters typically form the agenda.

In recent times, the Forum has taken a lead on research into voluntary sector day service provision in Edinburgh, which helped inform Council service commissioning and has contributed to designing elements of the Change Fund.

For more information please contact Colin Murray.