NASPC
The National Adult Support and Protection Co-ordinator (NASPC) for Scotland is committed to making ASP work better for people and practitioners. To stay up-to-date with our work and events, subscribe to the NASPC newsletter below. Previous mail-outs are available in the NASPC newsletter archive.
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Your NASPC
Brenda Walker
As the National Adult Support and Protection Coordinator for Scotland, Brenda has a real commitment to making adult support and protection (ASP) more effective for both practitioners and the adults themselves.
Contact me about:
- National work regarding the support and protection of adults (Adult Support and Protection – ASP)
- Ideas for ASPire (Adult Support and Protection innovation and reflection events) Sessions ideas for the
- Iriss ASPire Resource Hub – media of any kind linked to ASP which is of national interest
Email: brenda.walker@iriss.org.uk
From our blog
Happy birthday to the ASPire Hub!
I’m really thrilled to write that the ASPire Hub is now two years old! Everything on the ASPire Hub supports Adult...
Getting Chronologies Right for Everyone
Earlier this year we published Leading Chronology Improvement, a tool to support reflection and self-assessment. Informed by research into chronology...
Adult Support and Protection belongs everywhere
Everyone should be able to recognise and respond to concerns about harm to an adult
Hubba Bubba! New ASPire Resource Hub Live
I am delighted to let everyone know that the new Iriss ASPire Resource Hub has now been formally launched and...
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Part of my remit is to act as the Chair of the National ASP Learning and Development Network. The...
Divert!
I am involved with a Conference Planning Group relating to Divert – Scotland’s Serious Organised Crime Strategy has four strands:...
Linking up Child Protection and Adult Support and Protection
During April this year, I attended a joint meeting between Child Protection Committee Convenors and CP Lead Officers together with...
Working with Iriss
I wanted to use this space, this time, to highlight two pieces of work being undertaken by Iriss https://www.iriss.org.uk The first...