- Empower Care Scotland Ltd
Respecting choices, empowering individuals and encouraging them to achieve their potential
We promote the importance of allowing individuals to make their own decisions.
Respecting choices, empowering individuals and encouraging them to achieve their potential
We promote the importance of allowing individuals to make their own decisions.
Our Journey
From Partners in Play to Empower Care Scotland
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.
Why We Rebranded
Our Expanded Vision
While our core mission remains unchanged—empowering people with additional needs to actively participate in community life—our new identity allows 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
The Same Heart, Broader Horizons
Though our name has changed, 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.
As 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 & objectives
Our Values
Our moral purpose is to ensure we provide a holistic, person-centred approach that is specific to the individual’s needs.
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.
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.
What we believe is important
Our aims & objectives
Our Values
Our moral purpose is to ensure we provide a holistic, person-centred approach that is specific to the individual’s needs.
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.
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 an on 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 young adults in a volunteering role
We offer
Yearly activity programme of exciting experiences and residential breaks
Join our
Sensory room and Community space with daily activities
Enjoy the outdoors
Residential breaks
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
