Published: April 21, 2022
Lothian Disability News – Spring Edition 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…
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Published: March 16, 2022
Social Care – Self-Directed Support (SDS) Guidance for the Pandemic – Guidance Update
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
Changes to Disability Living Allowance for Children
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
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Distance Aware Scheme
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
PA Recruitment in Crisis
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: January 11, 2022
Update on payroll situation for all service users
Payroll update Following on from our post about the payroll team inbox earlier on, we would like to inform our service users that the situation has been resolved. Timesheets…
Published: January 11, 2022
Urgent message for all service users
Unfortunately, our payroll team are having some technical issues with the payroll inbox. If you are receiving an error message saying the inbox is full when submitting your timesheets, please…
Published: December 24, 2021
Festive Opening Hours 2021
Grapevine Grapevine will be closed from 4pm 23th of December 2021 and will reopen at 10am on 5th of January 2022. If you need urgent support, you can call Penumbra’s Crisis team…