Supporting Others with Digital
Guidance and resources to help you support others to get online and benefit from digital.
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Digital Inclusion
Practice Guide for Digital Inclusion
Format: Online Guide
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Audience: Beginner
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: This online practice guide has been produced to help practitioners think about the role digital plays in the services and support you provide, and what practitioners can do to help people access digital supports and services. The guide has hints and tips on actions you can take to build your confidence to help people access digital health and care services, and is more about integrating digital inclusion as part of person-centred care than it is about technical knowledge.
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From Pillars to Practice: Developing a framework for embedding digital inclusion in health and social care
Format: PDF document
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Audience: All levels
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: A proposed framework with a refined approach to digital inclusion supporting the practical implementation of digital inclusion in health and social care.
User rating: 3.5/5 (based on 2 reviews)
Digital Inclusion
Format: Webpage
Duration: Up to 1 hour
Audience: All levels
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: Here you'll find SCVO's Digital Inclusion Roadmap for Scotland, along with the latest research on digital inclusion and guidance for organisations.
User rating: 4/5 (based on 1 review)
Human Rights Charter for Technology and Digital in Social Care: Guidance Document
Format: PDF document
Duration: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Audience: Beginners in Care
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: Scottish Care and partners have developed a human rights-based charter for technology and digital in social care. This Guidance reflects briefly on each of the 17 statements within the charter and suggests how they can be used to support the human rights of individuals and communities in the use of technology and digital in social care.
User rating: 4/5 (based on 1 review)
Offline and Overlooked: Digital Exclusion and its Impact on Older People
Format: Report
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience: Beginner
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: A report on the situation facing older people who are not online and what could be done to help them.
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Digital Nation UK 2024
Format: Infographic
Duration: Less than 10 minutes
Audience: All
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: The Digital Nation infographic gathers together the facts and stats about digital inclusion and exclusion in the UK.
User rating: 4/5 (based on 1 review)
Online Safety
‘Get Online’ Care Home Tool
Format: Interactive tool
Duration: Up to 10 minutes
Audience: Beginner
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: This tool has been created to help people with differing needs in care home settings adopt good cyber-security practices and keep themselves safe online. The tool is intended to be used by a worker and the person they are supporting together.
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Help Others Stay Safe Online
Format: eLearning
Duration: 12 minutes
Audience: Beginner
Account creation/sign in required: Yes
Description: A bitesize overview of how you can support others to stay safe online.
User rating: 3/5 (based on 1 review)
Accessing Digital Health and Wellbeing
Discover Digital Guide
Format: PDF document
Duration: 1 - 2 hours
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: A series of seven guides to help people understand and navigate digital health, care and wellbeing tools and services.
User rating: 4/5 (based on 1 review)
Discover Digital Course
Format: eLearning
Duration: 5 hours
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: Yes
Description: This course will help you to use digital health and care to improve your own wellbeing or that of someone you support. It will also allow you to signpost people to digital tools, services and resources relating to self management, the NHS and Technology Enabled Care.
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Talking Trust in Digital Health
Format: Video
Duration: 6 minutes
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: A video to help you think about how you might answer people’s questions to help them feel safer using a digital health website.
User rating: 4/5 (based on 1 review)
Supporting Children and Young People
Aye Mind Toolkit
Format: PDF document
Duration: Up to 2 hours
Audience: All levels
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: Your introductory guide to using digital technologies to support children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
User rating: 4/5 (based on 2 reviews)
Aye Mind Digital Tools
Format: Various
Duration: Various
Audience: All levels
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: Explore a collection of digital tools and services that you might want to use with the children and young people you support, covering a range of mental health and wellbeing areas.
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Other
Supporting People in a Digital World
Format: Webpage & video
Duration: Up to 30 minutes
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: A short video and booklet to help you support people in a digital world.
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AbilityNet Webinars
Format: Recorded webinars
Duration: Various
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: A collection of webinars on a range of topics of relevance to disabled people. The library of recordings is free to access and contains useful information for disabled people and the professionals who support them.
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Supporting People with Everyday Technology
Format: Webpage and recorded webinars
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: A collection of recorded webinars to enable social care staff to help people they support and their families to make choices about using technology to stay connected and contribute to their communities.
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Resources to help Digital Enabling
Format: PDF documents
Duration: 5 minutes per document (crib sheet)
Audience: Beginners in Care
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: The NCF have developed a series of simple practical crib sheets to help providers, big and small, make the best use of digital technology for their residents and staff. Designed to help both staff and residents, or anyone using services, the crib sheets are simple, bright and use straightforward language. They are designed to be printed and laminated by care settings for multiple use, but they are just as useful to help anyone in their own home, as well as carers and families and friends.
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Stay Connected: Supporting People with Learning Disabilities to Use Technology
Format: Videos
Duration: 30 minutes (each video is around 5 minutes)
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: This webpage offers guidance on how to support people with learning difficulties to use digital tools. The webpage contains a series of videos providing insights from those who support, as well as those who are supported.
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Helping People with Learning Disabilities to Use Technology: Guides for Supporters
Format: Guides
Duration: 30 minutes to 1 hour
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: A collection of guides for those supporting people with learning disabilities to help them understand whether they would like to use technology, advocate their technology needs and choose the right technology for them.
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Helping Older People Get Online
Format: Webpage and video
Duration: Up to 10 minutes
Audience: Beginners
Account creation/sign in required: No
Description: Guidance and a video focussing on some of the benefits of being online for older people. The webpage also provides an overview of some of the support available from Age UK to help older people to get online.
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