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Produced alongside people with lived experience, professionals, policymakers and others, our resources have helped to shape and inform knowledge, values and practice, and appear in a range of Scottish Government policy and strategy frameworks.

Key Resources

Scottish Transitions Forum

Compass

Free online tools to help young people in Scotland, their parents and carers, and the professionals who support them, with the transition to young adult life.

Scottish Transitions Forum

Principles of Good Transitions 3

Scotland's national framework to inform, structure and encourage the continual improvement of support for young people who are making the transition to young adult life.

National Involvement Network

Charter for Involvement

Sets out in their own words how supported people want to be included in their services and communities.

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SOLD Network

Visual Support Cards: Representing clients with communication support needs in custody

A resource to accompany the SOLD Practice Guide for Defence Solicitors in Scotland to aid your verbal communication with a client with communication support needs.

SOLD Network

SOLD Easy Read Guides

A collection of Easy Read guides produced with our partner People First Scotland.

SOLD Network

Practice Guide for support staff – People with Communication Support Needs in the Scottish Criminal Justice System

Our Practice Guide was produced by the Supporting Offenders with Learning Disabilities (SOLD) network in collaboration with our justice partners. It aims to help support workers from all sectors who find the person with learning disabilities they support, in the criminal justice system.

SOLD Network

A Practice Guide for Defence Solicitors in Scotland: representing clients with communication support needs

Advice on how to recognise when a person has difficulty with communication and information on the various supports available.

‘The Charter was crucial.
It gave us a framework to follow and provided reassurance that we were doing things in the right way, that this is what people wanted.’
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