National Care Service: Scottish Learning and Improvement Framework for Adult Social Care Support and Community Health (SLIF) co-design report
This report sets out findings we have gathered through research and co-design that relate to Scottish Learning and Improvement Framework for Adult Social Care Support and Community Health (SLIF)
Co-design sessions
We completed a series of focus group conversations to build on what we learnt from desk research. Speaking to people who may not normally be able to access or engage with government.
Who was involved in focus group sessions
The focus group sessions have taken place between August 2024 and March 2025. They were completed in-person with the following groups.
People with lived and living experience of:
- Alzheimer’s and their carers
- homelessness
- accessing adult social care support and community health services, including unpaid carers
- accessing mental health services and support
- the justice system
The following groups were also involved:
- Pakistani women
- Disabled people
- Gypsy and travellers
How we designed the sessions
The sessions looked to understand:
- what achieving these outcomes would look like in people’s lives
- how people would know progress was being made
This was important as we want to measure success by what matters to people.
Each group focused on separate outcomes which contribute to the main improvement outcomes mentioned above:
1. People are connected and supported through their local communities.
- people experience quality, reliable, safe and consistent care and support that is right for them, through their life course
- people are able to participant in community employment and education, if the wish to do so
- people experience flexible responsive care and support to meet their needs, provided through quality relationships
2. People have an active role in maintaining their health and wellbeing.
- people’ rights are respected, protected, and upheld
- people are actively involved in their care decisions, or the care decisions of the people they care for
3. People experience coordinated care and support, delivered by a workforce working effectively across the system
- people’ journey are integrated with smooth pathways
Not every group was asked questions relating to every outcome above. And not every point across this summary was made or raised by all groups.
Contact
Email: NCScommunications@gov.scot