What works for families: A new approach to short breaks in Scotland Alison Stevenson Short Breaks Fund Manager, Shared Care Scotland

Inspiring Breaks: Scotland’s Short Breaks Fund Northern Ireland Carers Summit 2014 Alison Stevenson: Shared Care Scotland

Setting the scene Shared Care Scotland Scotland’s Short Breaks Fund Policy context Ambitions and challenges Ingredients for success

Shared Care Scotland Our mission What we do Who we work with

The Short Breaks Fund Carers Strategy for Scotland National carers organisations £3m per year until 2016 Shared learning Policy context

Principles and ambitions To develop short break projects that: Improve quality of life Nourish the caring relationship Prevent crisis Reach carers in most need Provide choice and control Grow the menu of short breaks

Growing short break ideas Fertiliser funding for new ideas Cross pollination Personalisation and individual micro- budgets Building mainstream capacity

Achievements 430 projects funded £7,787,000 distributed 21,379 carers benefitted Development of good practice resources

Shared learning and shared resources Short Breaks Evaluation toolkit Short Breaks Consultation toolkit Short Breaks unit cost calculator Inspiring Breaks: my break planner

Spicing it up……. Small (and interesting) is beautiful! Personalisation doesn’t happen in a building Ideas need nourishment Progress needs partners

Challenges and opportunities Willingness to think differently Move resources from here to there Sustainability

Thank you! Questions?