About the ILiS project

Background to the ILiS project

The Independent Living in Scotland project has been set up to:

  • Support disabled people to have their voices heard by policy makers, decision makers and others in wider society
  • Grow and strengthen the Independent Living Movement in Scotland
  • It also supports those disabled people who sit on the Scottish Government’s Core Reference Group on Independent Living.

The ILiS project aims to inspire, involve and invest in the Independent Living Movement in Scotland

  • Inspire
  • Involve
  • Invest

This project is part of a wider initiative by the Scottish Government to deliver equality and human rights for disabled people in Scotland by addressing independent living. The project is grant funded by the Scottish Government and is being hosted by the Equality and Human Rights Commission until March 2012.

The project involves a wide range of disabled people and their organisations to strengthen and develop the Independent Living Movement in Scotland and to support the involvement of disabled people in shaping the Scottish Government’s approach.

A Steering Group of Disabled People's Organisations  guides the direction of the ILiS project. You can find out more about the Steering Group. 

What will the project team do?

The project team will deliver a wide range of activities to meet the project objectives set out above over the years of the project.  

  • We will work with Disabled People’s Organisations to support disabled people to consider what independent living means and to learn about the Independent Living Movement and what they can do in the Movement.
  • We will identify and support people to become Ambassadors for Independent Living, to inspire other disabled people to take action.
  • We will provide resources and information for the Movement and disabled people to support them to take action.
  • We will showcase examples of where things are working and where they are going wrong...and why
  • We will raise awareness of independent living amongst professionals, decision makers and politicians. We will work with allies and hopefully turn detractors into potential allies for disabled people.
  • We will proactively suggest policy changes and respond to policy announcements and planned changes in the law and we’ll help disabled people and their organisations to think about how they can respond too.
  • We will pilot and promote the use of coproduction, host seminars on this and develop and publish a coproduction tool for the Independent Living Movement and it's allies.

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