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Digital Inclusion
Digital Health and Care Scotland

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)


 

SCVO

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)


 

ScottishCare

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)


 

Age UK

Offline and overlooked

Format: Video

Duration: 2 minutes

Audience: Beginner

Account creation/sign in required: No

Description: A short video demonstrating the impact digital exclusion can have on those who struggle to get online. 

User rating: 3/5 (based on 1 review)


 

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)

Accessing Digital Health and Wellbeing
Alliance

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)


 

Alliance

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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Mhor Collective

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
AyeMind

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

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
Ace Angila

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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Digital Unite

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)


 

Ability Net

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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Skills for Care

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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NCF

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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