Published: May 9, 2022
The City of Edinburgh Council will be delivering Holiday Support for Children with a disability over the 2022 school summer holidays. The Holiday Support is for school aged children with…
Published: April 21, 2022
Welcome to the Spring Edition of Lothian Disability For Inclusive Living. The new spring edition of the newsletter with new articles is now available. Thanks to all of you for…
Published: March 16, 2022
Scottish Government Update to Self-Directed Support for Social Care. The Scottish Government has published an update to SDS Guidance for the Pandemic on Friday 11th February 2022. If the local…
Published: February 17, 2022
Scotland has started taking control of some benefits under Social Security Scotland. Due to this, disability living allowance for children (DLAc) is changing for Scottish residents. It will now be…
Published: February 3, 2022
What’s the Distance Aware Scheme? The Distance Aware Scheme is a new initiative supported by the Scottish Government designed to help people who are concerned about sharing the same space…
Published: January 24, 2022
As part of our services, LCiL’s Independent Living service supports people to recruit Personal Assistants (PAs) to assist them to live independently. PAs can provide assistance from everything from support…
Published: August 24, 2021
“Whoops! I’m duty ILO!” is the subject line of an email I recently sent to colleagues across the organisation. It was midday on a Wednesday and I was the duty…
Published: July 20, 2021
I have been as part of the Independent Living Team within LCIL for eight years. Along with my colleagues, we support service users across the Lothians. I’ve had a Personal…