- Empower Care Scotland Ltd
Respecting choices, empowering individuals & encouraging them to achieve their potential
Offering essential community support and respite for individuals with disabilities throughout North Lanarkshire. We promote the importance of allowing people to make their own decisions.
Who are Empower Care Scotland?
Watch our introduction. Discover how we support, care, and empower people across Lanarkshire.
Building on Tradition, Expanding Our Reach
Since 1996, we’ve been dedicated to supporting individuals with additional needs across Lanarkshire. In 2024, we evolved from Partners in Play (PIP) to Empower Care Scotland Ltd—a transformation that better reflects our comprehensive services and expanded mission.
Bridging the Gap
Our commitment is to providing continuous support throughout life’s journey. At Empower Care Scotland, we’re bridging the crucial gap between children’s and adult services, offering families the consistency and trust they deserve at every stage.
Our Vision
Our core mission—empowering people with additional needs to actively participate in community life—has expanded to allow us to:
- Provide direct support and information to families of children and young people with disabilities
- Extend our expertise into adult services, creating a seamless transition for those we support
- Develop independence and overcome barriers to active participation
- Improve opportunities for individuals with additional support needs at all life stages
Broadening our Horizons
Our dedication to the Lanarkshire community and our moral purpose remain steadfast: to improve opportunities, develop independence, and overcome barriers for all individuals with additional support needs.
At Empower Care Scotland, we look forward to continuing our journey with you, now with an expanded capacity to support individuals throughout their entire lives.
What we believe is important
Our aims and objectives
Choice:
We promote the importance of allowing individuals to make decisions about their own lives. Respecting choices, empowering individuals, and fostering a sense of independence.
Our Values
Our moral purpose is to ensure we provide a holistic, person-centred approach that is specific to the individual’s needs.
Active participation:
Encouraging people to choose and define activities that are meaningful to them, build their social confidence, self-awareness, encourage and help them to achieve their potential.
Diversity and equality:
Respecting peoples' individuality, integrity, humanity, dignity. Respect for individual preferences: Respecting people’s privacy and their wishes and aspirations.
Confidentiality:
Keeping personal information private. Only share information with those who need to know and always with consent.
Dignity:
Treating every individual with respect and recognising their worth and value.
Compassion:
Being mindful and aware of others' needs and feelings. Acts of kindness, listening, to work in partnership with any individual or organisation operating in the same field and sharing the same aims and values.
- MEET THE STAFF GROUP
Empower Care Scotland Ltd Staff Group
Our staff team is central to our organisation and whilst not everyone is captured in the photograph, their efforts and dedication are crucial to our operations.
Our office team is available between 9am and 5pm for a chat and we provide a 24 hour On Call service during evenings and weekends.
Feedback is extremely important to us and gives us the opportunity to be responsive in changing and adapting quickly to the needs of the people receiving our support.
Empower Care Scotland Ltd
Meet the team
Tracy Smith
Lynsey Adam
Alison Armstrong
Sandra Foy
Yvonne Woodward
Eric Brown
We offer
Empowering people to reach their potential with college support
We offer
Community and home support that promotes independence
we help by
Supporting adults in a volunteering role
We offer
Yearly activity programme of exciting experiences and residential breaks
Join our
Weekly adults ASN club with a timetable of activities in North Lanarkshire
experience our
Sensory Room - decompress and explore your senses in our dedicated sensory room in Coatbridge
What We Do & Present Services
Personalised Support Services
Delivery of person centred support, tailored and responsive to the physical and emotional needs of the individual. Consideration with matching staff appropriately. Working to promote community inclusion, independence, and self-determination, ensuring individuals with disabilities can actively participate in all aspects of community life.
Quality Care
Provision of high quality care services for children and adults that is consistent, fair and rights based. Our staff are trained and possess practical and technical skills, along with personal values such as empathy and kindness, which are important aspects of social care.
Community Engagement
Supporting inclusive recreational opportunities through our yearly activity programme of indoor and outdoor sessions, while also collaborating with other agencies to expand accessible services. Offering college support services for students with additional needs.
Training
We operate as an accredited SQA Training Centre. Internal and external training spaces available to train staff working toward SVQ qualifications in line with SSSC requirements.
Advocacy & Inclusion
Working to promote community inclusion, independence, and self-determination, ensuring individuals with disabilities can actively participate in all aspects of community life.
We are an SQA Accredited Training Centre Our Certificates
Testimonials
Trusted by individuals & carers throughout Scotland
“I think Empower Care Scotland offer a fantastic and vital service to children and adults with additional needs. My daughter has always been well taken care of, and she enjoys every minute of her time when she is with the staff of Empower Care Scotland. I am always kept up to date with everything they do whilst they support my daughter. I find this very helpful as it means I can talk to her about everything she has done while in their care. I can’t praise them enough as it’s a win, win situation for us as I get the much-needed respite to recharge my batteries to continue being my best for my daughter.”
Mrs McDowell - Parent
Scott Aged 19
“I have been with Empower Care Scotland since July 2021, and it is a privilege to work with some of the most determined people who overcome daily challenges. The staff team are all friendly, approachable and will provide support to ensure that you are able to fully support the children and adults in your care.”
Hazel - Staff Member
“I joined Empower Care Scotland 7 years ago; in that time, I have supported various young people in different circumstances. Groups, summer camp outings and residentials. Also, the SDS support that I am part of. In the above I have, learned to canoe, zip wire, enjoyed experiences in outdoor centre, something I would never have attempted but knowing if the service users see staff participating then they will too. Throughout the years picking up valued skills and then becoming a supervisor. An amazing group of people and the more staff Empower employ, the more we can support.”