Shared Care Scotland - Short Breaks Brokerage Programme 2025

Shared Care Scotland is a charity with a vision of a Scotland where everyone who receives support or provides unpaid care can live a satisfying life, with the assistance they need to take regular, quality breaks from demanding caring routines.To do this we offer services including events, publications and research reports, and an online directory of short break services. As one of seven National Carers Organisations we also contribute to the development of policy and best practice for carers.We also operate the Short Breaks Fund on behalf of Scottish Government, providing grants to third sector organisations that support unpaid carers to take a break.

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We are delighted to be launching our short breaks brokerage programme offering 10 months of facilitated learning and development

At Shared Care Scotland, our mission is to improve the choice and availability of short breaks services for Scotland’s unpaid carers. With a new Right to a Break from caring in development, we have recognised the great potential that high-quality specialist short break brokerage services have in meeting the varied needs of carers, and at scale.We are delighted to launch our short breaks brokerage programme, which offers ten months of facilitated learning and development, peer support, and positive action. This makes use of our innovative short breaks brokerage resources. We hope that this programme will be of interest to colleagues working in short breaks in both the third and public sectors. Registration will open on Wednesday 5 March and will close on Monday 24 March.The programme will begin with an introductory session online on 2 April 2025 when we will introduce the full programme and the suite of resources we have coproduced including:A blueprint for short breaks brokerage: which helps establish the definition, principles, outcomes, components and standards of a successful brokerage serviceA self-review tool for you to work through and identify your strengths and areas for improvements as well as where you can share your practice or learn from othersCarer facing material to help share clear messaging on what carers can expect: ensuring transparency and trust.Immediately following the introductory session we will establish our community of practice so that those working through the programme can learn from and support each other. This will be further enhanced by a series of community of practice sessions which will focus on key areas of development and learning and these dates have been set out. A full list of these dates can be found here - <a href="https://www.sharedcarescotland.org.uk/policy-practice-development/short-breaks-brokerage/" title="https://www.sharedcarescotland.org.uk/policy-practice-development/short-breaks-brokerage/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Our 2025 short breaks brokerage programme | Shared Care Scotland</a>If you have any enquiries please get in touch with <a href="mailto:Kate.Hogarth@sharedcarescotland.com" title="mailto:Kate.Hogarth@sharedcarescotland.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kate.Hogarth@sharedcarescotland.com</a>

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