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Putting human rights and equalities at the heart of what we do…

10 May 2022 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

 by Alice Tucker, Third Sector Human Rights and Equalities Development Officer (East region) 


Earlier this month, I embarked on the 6-hour journey from my parent’s home in Cambridgeshire to Edinburgh to begin my role as a Human Rights and Equalities Development Officer with EVOC.

My move-in day marked only the second time I had been to Edinburgh, with the first being a month before to view flats. To the outside observer, this may have seemed like a radical decision. I was moving to a new country, hundreds of miles from my friends and family with very little knowledge of the city that was about to become my home. But, when I saw EVOC’s advertisement for the Development Officer role, it was too good to let fear get in the way. EVOC were looking for a new member of staff to support a project entitled THRE (Third Sector Human Rights and Equalities) that was about to be launched in partnership with two other Third Sector Interfaces across Scotland – the project’s goal being to support the third sector in putting human rights and equalities at the heart of what they do. For me, this sounded perfect.

I recently graduated from a Master’s degree in human rights and was looking for an opportunity to put this knowledge into practice. Being able to do so within the context of the third sector was ideal, as I have been involved with charities, volunteering and fundraising for the past 4 years in both paid and voluntary capacities. So, this role felt like the perfect fit for me…even if it was 300 miles away! 

Familiarising myself with how human rights are being tackled in Scotland was a reassuring experience. Whilst there have been prominent challenges to human rights in the UK in recent times, it quickly became clear to me that Scotland genuinely cares about human rights and equalities. From the Scottish parliament’s unanimous vote to incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, to the various training and events on equalities being hosted within the sector, human rights are being made a priority at all levels. This was a very welcome discovery, but I knew that this doesn’t mean things are perfect in Scotland, or anywhere for that matter. Rather, it was now my job to support the third sector to improve their own work on human rights and equalities. This will range from delivering training on what human rights and equalities mean, to creating resources and checklists highlighting what can be done, and what is already being done, by the sector.

So now, after fitting my life into my parent’s 7-seater and journeying with them up almost the entire length of the A1, it’s time for the work to begin! 

Find out more about THRE here.

Look out for more details and opportunities in EVOC’s e-newsletters and social media. 

 

The world stopped breathing…

27 April 2022 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

 by Olga Wojciechowska (EVOC Development Worker)


A little over a month ago the world stopped breathing… hoping that what they were hearing and seeing wasn’t real.

Poland (where I live) began welcoming people from Ukraine almost as soon as the war started.

My friends and family were rushing to help people at the border, taking complete strangers into their homes. Within a day, my Facebook feed was filled with friends asking for clothes, shoes, and food – any supplies that anyone could spare to support their new guests. I remember being on the phone with my friend and her telling me that she had taken in a mother and her family.

I wanted to do something too.

Enter EVOC.

I was asked if I would like to support Scottish efforts to prepare for and support Ukrainian refugees and welcomed the opportunity with open arms. 

I got in touch with the Warsaw Hub and was invited by Agata, the Co-ordinator there, to visit the 100 women and children they were accommodating. On the day of my visit there were 40 to 50 people expectantly waiting to hear about preparations, information, and opportunities awaiting them in Scotland. It was an emotional meeting. The reality kicked in that this could happen to any one of us, at any time. Most of them had less than an hour to pack their belongings and leave. Some had already heard that their homes had been flattened in the bombings. I couldn’t even begin to imagine the stress that they’ve gone through. It was completely different to hearing, reading, and seeing it online or on the news.

At that point, 400,000 Ukrainian people had fled to Warsaw, an increase of 23%. I started to hear and see Ukrainians everywhere. Going about their lives, on buses, in restaurants, walking on the streets. I still can’t believe it’s happening and there is a big knot in my stomach because, as I’m sure many of you do, I feel helpless.

I am grateful that I can help through the work I’m doing for EVOC.

I am proud of the Polish people, my family, and friends for helping the people where they can.

I am moved by the effort that Scottish organisations are putting in to prepare – everyone is hands on and it’s amazing.

Social Prescribing – it’s a no brainer!

8 March 2022 By Craig Mundie Leave a Comment

by Alison Leitch (Community Link Worker Network Area Lead (North Edinburgh)) on social prescribing in Scotland.


Social prescribing, is an approach (or range of approaches) for connecting people to non-medical sources of support or resources in the community which are likely to help with the health problems they are experiencing. 

There are various different models of social prescribing in place across Scotland. Many of these involve a social practitioner often referred to as a link worker, social prescriber or community navigator/connector who work with people on a person-centred approach to link into local resources.  The work may be carried out over a number of sessions to ensure trusting relationships can be built with the aim of reducing as many barriers as possible to ensure the outcome is successful.  

It is important to recognise that people’s health and wellbeing are determined mostly by a range of social, economic and environmental factors, and social prescribing aims to address people’s needs in a holistic way.  GPs do not have the time to assist with poor housing, financial worries or someone looking to rebuild their confidence to get back into work.  However, people have a huge amount of trust in their doctors and when times are tough, they are often the first port of call.  By being able to offer social prescribing, practitioners are able to empower individuals to take greater control of their own health and well-being which in turn can help alleviate pressure on state services. 

Social prescribing can involve a range of activities that are mostly provided by community and third sector organisations. Examples can include peer support groups, volunteering, arts groups, gardening, befriending, and physical activities.  With ever growing pressure on primary and secondary care services, social prescribing absolutely has a vital role to play   

From previously having a case load, I have witnessed first hand the difference taking time to get to know a patient and their story can make.  Having someone place their trust in you is an honour and when a patient agrees to try something new for the first time, it gives a great sense of job satisfaction.  A lady I worked with wrote;  

“I’m so glad that my GP introduced us. Everyone who is in difficulty should have a Community Link Worker – or as I prefer to call them a Light Worker. My life changed for the better from the moment I met mine!” 

Social prescribing really is a no brainer! 

Tagged With: CLW, community, community link worker, social prescribing, social prescribing day

Put the Money Where Our Mouth Is…

2 November 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

 by Maria Arnold (Senior Development Officer – Adult Health and Wellbeing). 


How to best spend public money is a topic fraught with tension, and for good reason. Too often the processes used to decide how to use precious funds seem so bureaucratic that they feel like they are missing the point. The various qualities of a written submission seem to become more important than… whether or not it’s the best thing to support the communities in question. Small organisations often lose out, and high level commitments to tackling health inequalities often fall short. It’s all done in the pursuit of transparency and accountability but many people in the voluntary sector have for a long time (loudly) wondered if we can’t find a better way. These discussions have certainly been a consistent part of my 6 years at EVOC.

So now we have a really exciting opportunity to put our (well, actually Scottish Government’s) money where our mouth is. £1.255 million to spend on community mental health and wellbeing in Edinburgh. An emphasis on supporting those communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, and those experiencing multiple marginalisation. A focus on upstream initiatives – early intervention and prevention. A recognition from Scottish Government that people with lived experience need to be at the centre of the process and that there is a role for community commissioning. Definitely exciting.

But it’s also pretty nerve wracking too. The hardest thing is that the timescales are very tight and not ideal to have this kind of conversation in the way we’d like. We’re going to try our best but I’m worried we won’t be able to be as inclusive as we could be with more time, and I’d appreciate any support with this. It’s also really hard to prioritise early intervention and prevention when we are so painfully aware of so much need at all levels, and there is so much crisis to respond to. But we all know the strength of evidence in terms of early intervention and prevention being the way to address health inequalities.

It always feels much safer to continue with a known (even if known-to-be-flawed) system, rather than take the risk to try to change it. So I’m really putting a big plea out to all our partners to have a leap of faith, jump in, and see how much we can improve things this time around. Let’s see how far we can go to replacing competition with collaboration, and devolving decision making to communities. I doubt we’ll achieve the perfect system but I do think we can make progress, and keep building on it each chance we get.

Some things are set by Scottish Government, but there is a lot left to decide locally.

Here’s the full briefing document (Tue 2 Nov)

Partnership Plan (Mon 15 Nov)

Evidence appendix

There are 4 meetings* set up in the second half of November, please register and contribute if you can:

  • Tue 16 Nov, 9.30-11.30am (MS Teams)
  • Wed 17 Nov, 1.30-3.30pm (MS Teams)
  • Tue 23 Nov, 1.30-3.30pm (Zoom)
  • Thu 25 Nov, 11am-1pm (Zoom)

Please get in touch if we can support you to contribute to these in any way, find different ways to get involved, or support people with lived experience to contribute: funding@evoc.org.uk 

These events are just the first step in the development process, so make sure that you sign up to our e-newsletters and keep and watch out website news page for the latest updates and further opportunities. 

*Please note there is 1 event with 4 different dates – choose the ticket option with the date and time of your choice. 

The Future of Older People’s Day Care Services in Edinburgh

25 October 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

by Stefan Milenkovic (Senior Development Officer, Older People’s Health and Wellbeing at EVOC). As we publish a new report that explores the The Future of Older People’s Day Care Services in Edinburgh, Stef reflects on his experiences in the sector and how he hopes this report can inform the future. 


On the 18th October 2021, I will have been working for EVOC to support older people’s service providers for eight years. I was initially recruited to deliver the Local Opportunities for Older People (LOOPs) Programme. During that time, I have come to know organisations and their teams well and have had the opportunity to explore a number of different ideas. Some successful, some less so. All the way though, this has been a learning experience and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Though I will say – when I started my beard was not white!

Day Care Services within the city offer support to some of the city’s most vulnerable people so, when I was asked to try to find a way to help restart the support after the lockdown, I did my best to pull out all the stops. That has included work with Edinburgh Health and Social care Partnership, directly with Day Care organisations and the Care Inspectorate to try to make sure that any return was as quick but also as safe as possible.

The report that we have provided is based upon the lived experience of 200 people who attend our Day Care Services: the experiences they have shared show that their concerns when they go along to ‘the club’ are quite a long way from my own, I frequently find myself concerned about ‘increasing the use of preventative activities’, ‘building resilience’ and ‘reducing the progression of illness’. Their concerns are about seeing pals on the one or two occasions that they are able to get out of the house.

People really enjoy their time at the club and the relationships that they are able to build both with pals at the club and with staff are invaluable to the members who might otherwise be unable to get out and about and to their friends, relatives and carers who rely on the services. 97% of people who responded said that they wanted to get back to building-based services.

The report also looks at some of the longer standing issues which are now being addressed across the city:

  • How do we work better together to strengthen local communities?
  • How can we improve commissioning and procurement to reduce competition and improve services?
  • How can we ensure that the assets we all bring to the table are put to best use?
  • How can we make sure that an investment into a local community is retained by that community in the form of local community wealth, local jobs and local intelligence?

EVOC has been working closely with Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership to explore many of these questions through our Edinburgh Wellbeing Pact programme. If you would like to be involved in that work please register for our event on 28th October 2021

Looking forward we know that providers are ambitious for the future of the support they can offer to their members and the support they can offer in their local communities. The next few years should be exciting as we move toward the development of a National Care Service. If you are interested in the development of this work – we will be hosting a consultation event on the 27th October 2021 – please come along and make your views known. Register here.

For those of you who are not yet a member of our Older People’s Service Providers’ Forum, you can find further info here and I would be delighted to hear from you: stef.milenkovic@evoc.org.uk

ERA is Moving On

31 August 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

 by Michael McCarron, Senior Development Officer… 


After nearly 3 years with EVOC, the time has come for Edinburgh Recovery Activities (ERA) to move on to pastures new.

For those of you unaware of the ERA story, the project began as a response to the closure of a much loved and much needed recovery project in Edinburgh.  A hardy team made up of community members, volunteers and staff banded together in what was arguably, a very dark period. However, as we so often see within the recovery community, the will to start from scratch and move on was present and strong. With amazing support from the Edinburgh Alcohol and Drugs Partnership (EADP), I was given the task of speaking to the recovery community in Edinburgh and reporting on the needs and concerns moving forward and to ultimately answer the question – What Next?

In its purest essence, the community wanted a safe space, a place to be around therapeutic support, a place to build recovery capital and a place to meet with peers and share experiences and knowledge. An interim project was formed, which became Edinburgh Recovery Activities.  With the support of EVOC, ERA began putting on events and activities and even more importantly, providing support to the community and filling the gap that had been left. Weekly groups, one off events, drop in spaces, signposting, advice, accessing support, highlighting amenities and many other arms became a daily part of life with ERA.

In the past few years, the project has gone from strength to strength, becoming dynamic, inclusive and innovative and capable of responding quickly and concisely. This was in large part thanks to many people. The ERA Steering Group has proved pivotal in decision making, guidance and insight – we are truly grateful to have had such amazing support from them and look forward to a future that continues to utilise their positive input. Likewise, EVOC has been exceptional. For Jemma and myself, EVOC has been like having an incredibly supportive family backing us. Always on hand with knowledge and advice, providing us with support and allowing us the freedom to try, adapt, revise and proceed.  Without EVOC, ERA would never have covered the ground it has and we will always think of our time there with great happiness and thanks. I’m sure we will continue to work closely with EVOC – no doubt, firing more questions to the staff team, whom we have yet to stump – and look forward to a future that they have helped shape. From Wednesday 1 September we officially join the team at Cyrenians who are already supporting the next stage in ERA’s development – finding, creating and opening a safe space for the recovery community in Edinburgh. An exciting time ahead for sure. 

Before we go though, Jemma and I want to take a minute to say how much we will miss not only the support of EVOC as a team, but also the banter at team meetings and events. We will never forget the responses for the Christmas party survey nor the insanely hot staff trip to a nuclear power station. We have to say a special thanks to the management team: Ella, Ian and in more recent times, Bridie.  Likewise, Maria was instrumental with helping us travel in the right direction.  Whilst we ready ourselves to say goodbye to EVOC and hello to Cyrenians, we will always be grateful for our time at Ferry Road.

Get in touch with Mick or Jemma at Cyrenians (From Wed 1 Sep)

Tagged With: community, cyrenians, Edinburgh, era, recovery

A Transformation is Happening

10 August 2021 By Esther Currie 2 Comments

 by Ian Brooke, Deputy Chief Executive…


Photo of Ian Brooke in a suitWelcome to a blog about the voluntary sector and the Edinburgh Health & Social Care Partnership’s Transformation Programme.

No, don’t click to another page or wander off to see if the paint is dry, this is something worth spending five minutes thinking about!

The ‘transformation’ work began in 2020 and has been developed by a dedicated staff team who are employed to make change happen. My experience of the way this is working is it’s like an icebreaker cutting through the frozen ocean – successfully driving the programme forward with senior officers at the helm, who themselves are leading various pieces of work.

Here’s the list of work with the official titles and my quick explanation:

  • Three Conversations – continuing to roll out the three conversations way of working to increase uptake of preventative support
  • Community Frailty Service – working with Primary Care and others sites to identify and support frail older people.
  • Medical Day Hospitals – a programme to ensure that Day Hospitals offer the best support and facilitate the move away from the Liberton Hospital site
  • Community Mobilisation – part of the Edinburgh Pact work, the aim here is to mobilise local communities including groups and voluntary organisations and invest in prevention
  • Home First – putting into place systems that try to make sure as much care is provided at home as possible
  • Bed based care – changing the way care is provided and reviewing the number of beds in institutions
  • Home based care – re-design of care at home across all sectors
  • Edinburgh Pact – re-thinking the way that we work with citizens to ensure everyone has more good days
  • Transitions – particularly around young people moving from children to adult services in late teens
  • Workforce Strategy – ambitions for the future of the EHSCP workforce bringing together NHS and CEC staff

In summary, you’ll see how the voluntary sector is important in many if not quite all of the work – but what does your organisation do and how can it influence this work and become involved is the correct question to ask at this point…!

Well, EVOC staff attend the ‘Programme Boards’ that are responsible for overseeing the work and through our forums and networks, the work is discussed as relevant moments arise.

We also have a webpage dedicated to Transformation to keep everyone up to date. 

So please get involved, keep up to date if you can, and make sure the voice of all our work is heard!

Tagged With: public sector transformation

Learning From Lockdown in Edinburgh: Sharing Your Experiences

8 July 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

 by Hugo Whitaker (Development Worker – Disability and Carers)…


A lot of us are getting more than a little tired of the current restrictions and wanting to get back to being in buildings and outdoor spaces with others again – in the ways we used to. Recently some of us at EVOC took a few hours as part of ‘wellbeing morning’ to meet up in person and go for a walk. I really enjoyed meeting some colleagues I hadn’t seen face to face since March last year, as well as meeting one ‘in real life’ for the first time.  We spoke about how while being on line has some benefits, there is no substitute for meeting in ways people have always met – in small or larger groups, for work, learning, recreation, catching up with friends, going to a gig, film or festival. We’re looking forward to doing more of this, as well as making use of the some of new ways of communicating and meeting that we’ve learnt through the pandemic.

However, for some people, for instance unpaid carers and people with additional support needs like a learning disability or long-term condition, it is very unclear what opportunities will be available over the next few months. We’ve heard a lot of concerns raised through voluntary organisations that meet as part of the Edinburgh Carers Forum and Edinburgh Disability Forum that EVOC supports. We’re hearing that in some cases people have had no contact with anyone, apart from those who live with and care for them, since March 2020. Some carers have lost respite services, which they tell us are not coming back. Even if a service is open, we’re hearing that travel arrangements have been challenging.

Some people with additional support needs, and their carers, desperately want to be back doing what they did before too – meeting up with friends, doing voluntary work, going to college, social events, training or work. Others have got out of the habit of taking part in group activities, lost confidence in going out, or are really scared of catching Covid, so are not leaving the house at all through their own choice – particularly with plans to move to Level Zero and the high levels of infections in Edinburgh. People are also telling us that they’ve discovered new experiences during lockdown e.g. meeting on-line, meeting people locally, going for walks in places they’d never been before. 

Following discussions with forum members, colleagues in the Health and Social Partnership and the Council’s Transport Department, we thought it would be a good idea to find out more and have put together two brief surveys.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE SURVEYS HAVE NOW CLOSED

Our first survey asks people with additional support needs, and those that care for them, their experience of respite breaks or the lack of them. We also want to understand how they travel to places to do the things we all like doing, in buildings and outdoor spaces across the city and beyond. There is also an easy read version of the survey here. 

Our second survey asks member organisations about their experiences of supporting unpaid carers and those using day support. 

I’m on carer leave for the next few weeks, but look forward to sharing the findings with you when I’m back ‘at my desk’.

Hugo Whitaker, Development Worker – Disability and Carers


EVOC Survey for Organisations I EVOC Survey for Service Users & Carers I Easy Read Survey for Service Users & Carers

 

Oh no… not another blog!

24 March 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

A response to the Feeley Report by Ian Brooke (EVOC Deputy Chief Executive).


People often talk about circles ‘coming back around’.

Or maybe sometimes we see patterns where it’s simply random.

What I do know is that there are a lot of well-meaning official think tank (Scottish or UK Government) infrastructure bodies reports cascading out of pdf formatting software at any one time – but so many of them talk a good game but offer few practical steps to getting to grips with the issues at hand. Then, last week another one appeared:

Cover of the Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland

Only commissioned in the autumn, we knew that the review would report quickly. And we all hoped that it would focus on real people, organisations on the frontline and present practical actions. Well, to cut to the chase, it does.

 

‘We in the carers and independent living movement are pleased that our
intensive advocacy work has paid off so well’
Sebastian Fischer VOCAL CEO

All 109 pages burst with an ambition and phraseology many in the voluntary sector live and breathe every day. ‘Rights-based’, ‘People Powered’, ‘Fairness’ – to name but a few.

Ten years on from Christie’s ground-breaking commission and through the birth of the Frankenstein IJB restructuring, is this the breakthrough into puberty as the system had settled-down into its infancy?

The danger inherent in the ambition is that the system’s apparatchiks could easily get caught up redesigning process or structural niceties. Furthermore, the sensible reforms proposed might not even survive exposure to the real world – what would unions, CoSLA, IJB Chief Officers think? Are politicians brave enough to pull it off? We already know, disappointingly, that there is a split along constitutional lines amongst parties. And of course there’s the question of investment money. Keeping people well and safe and achieving everything they have the right to achieve isn’t cheap…

Breadth of ambition with practical steps – tick.

Difficult teenage years to come?

 

Looking Back at 2020 by Roisin Hurst

6 January 2021 By Esther Currie Leave a Comment

I don’t think 2020 is a year that any of us will forget anytime soon, so as we start a new year, it seems like a good time to reflect on both the challenges and positives (there were some!) of the last 12 months.

I started working at EVOC on the first day of lockdown, which was an unusual way to get to grips with a new job (although 9 months later probably not so unusual!)  Grappling with new technologies, hearing “you’re on mute” 20 times a day and meeting colleagues via Zoom and Teams chats became the norm very quickly. 

A few weeks after I started, EVOC was asked to manage the COVID-19 Food Fund project in partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council and third sector organisations.  EVOC’s role was to bring together the statutory and third sectors to co-ordinate provision of food across the city.  The project, which was funded by money from the Scottish Government Food Fund, was designed to support the most vulnerable people in the city who would otherwise struggle to access food due to the pandemic; to ensure that all of the money allocated to this critical project was used to supply and transport food to those who needed it most.

Because our roles were all changing we didn’t need to use any of the funding for staff etc, I was re-deployed from my original role at EVOC to support the project.  My job was a very practical one – ensuring that the referrals EVOC received from the Council were sent to the right hubs and providers across the city to ensure that people got food quickly. I was liaising with local organisations and the Council on a daily basis and sorting any queries that might arise.  I was also able to refer people for additional support that they might need such as dog walking, shopping or befriending. 

I would also call people who needed help urgently, just to check how they were doing and find out exactly what they needed.  In some cases, I was the only person who had spoken with them in the last few days and they were really appreciative of a friendly voice on the other end of the phone.   For me personally, it felt really rewarding to be doing something useful and practical to help people.

I also enjoyed getting to know everyone working at the fantastic organisations that were supporting the project.  We were all learning as we went along and we didn’t always get it right, however what we all had in common was our desire to ensure that no-one went hungry because of COVID. As a result, new partnerships have been formed which will stand us in good stead for the future!

The first phase of the food fund project finished in September, however we’ve recently stepped up the project again on a much smaller scale to mitigate the impact of the increase in COVID cases and the approach of winter.  For now, the level of demand is much lower, partly because the Council are operating a cash first principle for those in crisis as advocated by Scottish Government. Hopefully this helps people to have more choice and dignity in terms of self-determining the support they need, and food deliveries help those who really need them. 

So, while I will be glad to see the back of 2020 for lots of reasons, on a personal level, I feel very grateful that I was able to work with wonderful partners to do a job that has hopefully made a positive difference to peoples’ lives.

Roisin Hurst, Development Worker (Community Investment)


If you are currently aware of people in crisis please encourage them to call 0131 200 2388 or apply online for support. Find out how we are working with City of Edinburgh Council, Caring in Craigmillar, Cyrenians, Pilton Equalities Project and Space to those who need it during the current lockdown and restrictions. 

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