As the world leader in eye tracking and AAC, Tobii Dynavox provides innovative speech-generating devices, special education and literacy solutions and alternative computer access methods. Our vision is a world where everyone, regardless of physical or cognitive ability, has a voice of their own.
NeuroPhysio Scotland
NeuroPhysio Scotland We help people improve their mobility and get more out of life. We specialise in physical rehabilitation for people with conditions like cerebral palsy. We provide personalised, encouraging physiotherapy treatment and the latest rehabilitation technologies. Progress towards an optimal level of physical function, mobility and fulfilment is always our goal.
Your Options Understood (YOU)
YOU have been established since 2015. The company name was set up by Dr Danielle Farrel who lives with cerebral palsy. YOU’s ethos is to give disabled people a voice and this is achieved through a range of services including advocacy, education, training, consultancy, person-centred planning support and self-directed support advice.
YOU have a range of national partner organisations who we work closely with on a regular basis one of those is the Scottish union of supported employment SUSE. We were awarded their award for outstanding contribution at their annual conference last year, this was specifically aimed at Dr Danielle Farrel’s role as their lived experience co-ordinator which involved recruiting a range of disabled people to their lived experience network and working closely with employers to increase their confidence in employing disabled people.
More recently YOU were awarded funding from the National Lottery Community Fund which is enabling us to extend our Dream, Plan, Live programme and offer person-centred planning support to disabled people and families across Ayrshire. YOU can also provide this support through other avenues and we look forward to being able to broaden your knowledge about person-centred planning, a modern approach to it and how you, your loved one or someone you support can access the dream, plan, live, programme as part of this year’s cerebral palsy conference.
Make people with cerebral palsy count – Cerebral Palsy Scotland’s election manifesto
With the general election to be held on 4 July, Cerebral Palsy Scotland is calling on candidates to pledge to improve services for people with cerebral palsy, as well as the data that underpins good service delivery.
There is no clear picture of who has cerebral palsy and where they live across Scotland and the UK, meaning that services cannot be well planned.
The lack of data on people with cerebral palsy directly contributes to the ‘cliff edge’ of care faced by children with cerebral palsy as they transition into adult services, and the lack of specialist healthcare services for adults with cerebral palsy.
Based on our participation work with the cerebral palsy community, our election manifesto contains four detailed asks of politicians that would improve services for the cerebral palsy community.
These include continuing to fund and expand the Cerebral Palsy Integrated Pathway (CPIP) database to cover all children in the UK and a call that the existing NICE guidelines for adults with cerebral palsy and those under 25 must be effectively implemented by healthcare providers.
Download our election manifesto
We will continue to raise these issues with candidates in the run up to the election, and beyond.
What you can do
We’re asking our supporters across the cerebral palsy community to bring Cerebral Palsy Scotland’s election manifesto to the attention of their local candidates and ask them to make people with cerebral palsy count by pledging their support to improve services and data.
Tribute to Jim Campbell, former Chairman of Cerebral Palsy Scotland
It is with great sadness that we at Cerebral Palsy Scotland pay tribute to our former Chairman, Jim Campbell, who passed away on Sunday 26 May 2024.
Jim Campbell joined the board of the charity (then known as Bobath Scotland) in 2007, after spending his working life building up successful businesses in financial services.
He became Chairman of the Board in 2009 and served in that role until 2016. Jim made a significant contribution to strengthening the organisation throughout his tenure, and broadened its mission from being a charity that served the Glasgow area to one that served the whole of Scotland.
Jim initially focused on reforming the charity’s finances to ensure that the organisation was on a more secure financial footing, and subsequently brought together a strong board of trustees to support the charity going forward.
His leadership, contacts and negotiating skills were critical in securing a permanent home for Cerebral Palsy Scotland at Craighall Business Park. Jim also strengthened the charity’s governance procedures and to that end oversaw the transition to becoming a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) in 2016.
On leaving the board he continued to pursue a fundraising ambassadorial role. He was awarded the inaugural Terrific Trustee award at the Scottish Charity Awards in 2017 to mark his contribution to the work of the charity.
Paying tribute to Jim, our CEO Stephanie Fraser said:
“Although Jim had no personal connection to cerebral palsy, in supporting Cerebral Palsy Scotland over the years he saw an opportunity to use his financial and business skills for the good of others in a totally selfless way.
“He was committed to making the charity “think like a business”, and professionalised it from board level down. When he recruited me as CEO in 2012, he mentored, supported and challenged me, along with the rest of the staff, to develop and grow the charity so it could reach more people and families.
“Jim would always roll his sleeves up to help, taking part in countless events and persuading individuals and business to support the charity. He was incredibly self-effacing, and refused to take credit as being a catalyst for change; but that was exactly what he was.
“Jim’s contribution to the development of Cerebral Palsy Scotland was immense. I can honestly say that the charity would not exist today without him.”
Jim Campbell will be greatly missed by everyone at Cerebral Palsy Scotland who knew him. We extend our deepest sympathies to Nina, Fraser, Catriona and Fiona.