Our 2010 – 2011 Annual Report was launched at the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance Annual General Meeting last week.

The Report outlines the work we have been doing over the last year under the themes of quality, access and awareness as well as detailing the income and expenditure accounts.

The AGM was a great success with people coming from all over the country. After a morning of updates and information the afternoon consisted of lively group work; identifying themes, ideas and making suggestions that the SIAA can use to plan for a future on behalf of the Independent Advocacy movement.

The overriding theme coming out of the afternoon was that the movement needs to share and communicate more with other member organisations and feedback and pass on information to the  SIAA so that we can continue to represent our members in the most efficient and useful way. Suggestions included more face to face meetings, learning more about different areas and the different geographies covered and even including the SIAA on team meeting agendas so that a whole team can work with us rather than all the responsibility of the relationship falling to the Manager.

Other issues that were high in people’s minds were quality assurance and how we take that forward as a movement and building awareness about Independent Advocacy with politicians, councillors, commissioners and the public to protect the movement from threats such as competitive tendering. 

We will need a lot of co-operation for our members to take all of this forward but we are looking forward to the challenge.  We also want to say a big thanks to everyone who attended and helped make the day a success.

Karen Irvine (pictured) was keeping track of the day, you can watch a new short video to find out what we have been up to and where we are going. 

You can download a copy of the Annual Report here or contact us for a copy to be sent in the post.  Please get in touch if you have any questions or would like to discuss any of this further.

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13 October 2011