National Care Service: Independent advocacy co-design report

Co-design sessions

We ran 13 co-design sessions on independent advocacy with people from different backgrounds and communities. The people who took part had experience of accessing social care support services or supporting someone who has.

At the sessions we discussed:

• barriers to accessing independent advocacy support
• ideas to make independent advocacy easier to access
• what good examples of independent advocacy would look like

Our sessions were held in:

• Aberdeen
• Edinburgh
• Glasgow
• Livingston

We also held some session online for people who could not travel.

To run these sessions, we worked with:

• Action for Children
• Age Scotland
• Alzheimer’s Scotland
• Council of Ethnic Minority Voluntary Organisations (CEMVO)
• Glasgow Disability Alliance
• Minority Ethnic Carers of People Project (MECOPP)
• Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities