FINAL Schedule of events Challenge Poverty Week 2024

 

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The Scottish Government’s Serious Organised Crime Taskforce has developed guidance for practitioners around criminal exploitation as part of the wider Serious Organised Crime Strategy.

The guidance aims to support practitioners to divert adults, children and young people who are at high risk of criminal exploitation. 

Criminal exploitation: practitioner guidance

 

Each and Every Child is an initiative that is focussed on using robustly tested framing techniques to create a new narrative around care, one that shifts public attitudes and increases understanding about care experience and the care system.

Based on FrameWorks UK research into how the Scottish public thinks about care experience, and how care experience is discussed by media, individuals and organisations across Scotland, eight framing recommendations were produced to change how we speak about care experience.

The recommendations have been tested to tackle stigma and discrimination, whilst building support for improvements to the care system to help Keep The Promise.

Events

Additional Session: Supporting People to Tell Stories About Care Experience

This is a highly focused and practical session for anyone involved telling stories about care experience – in particular, as a spokesperson or when supporting others.

It will explore:

• The importance of staying on-message, including the perils of myth-busting and crisis language
• Sharing stories from first-hand experience, bringing in context and holding systems to account
• Using framing in interviews; staying in control and telling the story you want to tell AND the spot, position and move technique

Tuesday 18 April – 1400 to 1600

 

Introduction to Framing and Framing Care Experience

Our introductory session will introduce Each and Every Child and the evidence-based framing recommendations. Content will include:

• What is framing, and what does it mean for how we tell our stories?
• How can we change public thinking about care experience?
• What are issue frames, values, metaphor and context and how can these be used to tell a new story?
• What are mental shortcuts? What triggers them – and what are the consequences for communicators?

Tuesday 23 May – 1400 to 1600

 

Additional Session: Framing Care Experience Creatively and Consistently

Please note: you will need to have completed the Introduction to Framing and Framing Care Experience session before you can attend an additional session.

The session will look at how you can bring frames to life creatively by considering bespoke exercises, examples and practice that you can use. This will also be an opportunity to share practice and ideas of how you could use and flex the framing recommendations within your work.

Tuesday 09 May – 1400 to 1600

 

Monthly Framing Cafe

Join our monthly Framing Café – providing an informal opportunity to discuss framing and carry on the learning from our Introduction to Framing session.

The Framing Café aims to:

• Provide a confidential space to celebrate framing wins and talk through challenges – and meet others who are working to frame care experience
• Share experiences and examples of embedding the framing recommendations
• Hear from organisations who have been working on using the framing recommendations specific pieces of work
• Continue to develop your skills and confidence using the framing recommendations and techniques
• Start to build a Community of Framers across the country

Thursday 04 May – 1230 to 1330 

Thursday 01 June – 1230 to 1330 

Thursday 06 July – 1230 to 1330 

 

2 podcasts have also been produce by Each and Every Child and can be listened to via the links below.

Episode 1: In this first episode we are joined by two members of our voices of Experience reference group: Roseanna Campbell, Participation Officer Care Experienced Young People at Edinburgh City Council, and James Docherty, whose work includes supporting the Violence Reduction Unit. They are joined by host Claire O’Hara, Programme Director at Each and Every Child, to discuss why we frame our stories what the impact can be if people are not supported properly when speaking about their experience of care. Listen here.

Episode 2: For our second episode we are joined by Voices of Experience members Jimmy Paul, Director of WEAll Scotland and Oisin King, MSYP for Who Cares? Scotland and politics student at the University of Glasgow. In this episode, Jimmy and Oisin join Claire O’Hara, Each and Every Child Programme Director, to discuss what it is like to use the framing recommendations when speaking about care as someone with lived experience. The guests reflect on how powerful the framing recommendations can be when speaking about their experience of care, or speaking about changes that are needed in how we provide care for Scotland’s children and young people. Listen here.

A new OLLE course is available to help colleagues learn more about Living Well Falkirk and its capabilities.

What is Living Well Falkirk?
Living Well is Falkirk Health and Social Care Partnership’s self-assessment and advice service, providing local people with easy access to information and support. With a focus on prevention, the service is designed to provide help at an earlier stage than compared to when formal health or social care services are needed.

The Living Well Falkirk website (https://livingwellfalkirk.lifecurve.uk/) was built on the ADL Smartcare platform and launched in 2018 with a focus on healthy ageing. By mapping a user’s position on a LifeCurveTM and using self-assessment, the platform can provide advice and information as well as the ability to order some items of equipment to help individuals live as independently as possible.

Prior to the impact of the pandemic, the Living Well website was also supported by the in-person Living Well Centre model, offering people direct access to advice with the help of trained staff. The Partnership is now making plans to return to this in-person model.

OLLE Module
A new online course has been developed on Falkirk’s OLLE platform. By the end of the course, learners should be able to:
• Understand the aims and benefits of Living Well Falkirk
• Feel confident about trying out the website and about explaining it to people in Falkirk who use our services
• Understand what is meant by healthy ageing
• Understand what the LifeCurveTM can tell us and the people who use our services about our ageing journeys.

The course is available via the OLLE pages (in the Council Information and Policies section) via https://app.tessello.co.uk/Falkirk-Olle/login/

A new e-module has been launched on TURAS as part of the Trauma Training Programme – Developing your trauma-skilled practice 4 : understanding the use of substances to cope with the impact of trauma.

This supplementary module is part of the Developing your trauma skilled practice e- learning program and is designed for anyone who has contact with people who may have been affected by traumatic events and/or substance use.

Register or sign in to TURAS to access the module

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