ALLIANCE Live June Round-up
- Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
- Type: News Item
- Published: 5th July 2022

Catch up on the various podcasts, videos and webinars that have been released throughout June on ALLIANCE Live.
Episode 2 of Equally Valued: Dignity, fairness, and respect? Can Scotland change attitudes to social security?
We speak with Ben MacPherson, the Scottish Minister for Social Security, to understand Scotland’s future plans for social security as more benefits are devolved as well as leaders within the sector, including those from organisations representing people with disabilities and their carers.
Equally Valued is produced in partnership with healthandcare.scot an e-news organisation focussing on health and social care news in Scotland.
Listen to Episode 2 of Equally Valued (this link will take you away from our website).
Projects Insights from the Self Management Fund
Project Insights is a new ALLIANCE Live series delivered by the Self Management team, showcasing the learning of projects funded by the Self Management Fund.
Over the course of June the team have heard from the following projects:
ENABLE Scotland (this link will take you away from our website)
Moira Anderson Foundation (this link will take you away from our website)
LGOWIT (this link will take you away from our website)
Health All Round (this link will take you away from our website)
STAND (this link will take you away from our website)
NHS Conference Interviews
Scottish Governments Chief Nursing Officer Directorate including Health Science, AHPs and Midwives spoke with ALLIANCE Caring and Outreach Lead, Tommy Whitelaw about their hopes for this year’s NHS Conference and shared the aims and ambitions for each of their roles.
Exploring 20-minute Neighbourhoods
A short animation summarising the findings of the Health and Social Care Academy’s ‘Exploring Scotland’s 20-minute neighbourhoods’ report.
Watch the 20-minute Neighbourhoods animation (this link will take you away from our website).
Mental Health Standards for Scotland
The ALLIANCE and VOX Scotland engaged with people with lived experience and organisations from February 2022 to May 2022 to collect their experiences of adult secondary mental health care in Scotland.
This work was conducted to support the development of Mental Health Standards by the Scottish Government Mental Health and Wellbeing Standards Working Group and National Standards for Psychological Therapies.
Do you have a particular topic you have enjoyed on ALLIANCE Live that you would like to hear more of? Or would like to suggest one that has yet to be covered? Tweet us @ALLIANCEScot and use #ALLIANCELive or email live@alliance-scotland.org.uk.
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