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	CCPS Scotland CCPS is the association of voluntary sector organisations providing care and support services in Scottish communities. Its membership comprises the majority of the leading national non-profit and charitable service providers in Scotland.
	Common Knowledge (CKUK) We provide online learning, accessible information and social networking for people with learning difficulties.
	Empower Empower is committed to supporting people who use social care srevices to transform their lives by planning and organising their own support. This is done by encouraging people to access an Individual Budget through which they can purchase whatever they need to maximise their independence and live their life to the full. It is called Self Directed Support.
	Glasgow City Council Social Work Department : Personalisation and Self Directed Support In this area you will find paperwork, to be used by Providers, for Self-Directed Support.
	Glasgow Social Care Providers Forum Glasgow Social Care Providers Forum (GSCPF) is an innovative network of social care provider organisations delivering services across Glasgow. The Forum is the result of a successful merger, in August 2008, of the former Glasgow Community Care Providers Forum established in 2001 and, Glasgow Children's Services Provider Forum. It strives to build a strong provider community, where common issues can be raised, debated and represented.
	NAAPS Scotland NAAPS is a UK charity established to represent the interests of all those involved in delivering very small, individualised, community based services such as Shared Lives (formerly known as Adult Placement).
	Quarriers - Transforming Lives Quarriers provides the most diverse range of social care services in Scotland, through more than 100 different projects.
	Self-Directed Support Scotland (SDSS) Self Directed Support Scotland actively promotes Independent Living for disabled people by supporting, working with and championing the aims of self directed support organisations, (SDSOs) which themselves support disabled people to access and benefit from self directed support. SDSOs are organisations which are managed and controlled by disabled people.
	Shared Care Scotland Shared Care Scotland is a Scottish charity which promotes and supports the development of short break services (also known as respite care) for the benefit of carers and the people they care for.
	Short Breaks Bureau The Short Breaks Bureau organises accommodation for those who have been identified by social work as needing a short break, and who are unable to take a holiday due to disability, ill health or requiring special needs.
	The Care Commission The Care Commission were set up in April 2002 under the Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 to regulate all adult, child and independent healthcare services in Scotland to make sure that care service providers meet the Scottish Government's National Care Standards and work to improve the quality of care.
	The Dementia Centre The PSS Dementia Centre Website includes information and resources for people living with dementia, their carers and health professionals
	The Mungo Foundation The Mungo Foundation, formerly the Community Social Services Department of the Archdiocese of Glasgow, is an independent organisation in the voluntary sector.
	The Scottish Government The Government is working in partnership with service users, carers, local authorities, the NHS, the Care Commission and the voluntary and independent sectors to improve community care services across Scotland.