Values

The Lilias Graham Trust believes in:

• Achieving high standards of effective professional practice, properly evaluated.
• Being adaptable and innovative in response to need.
• Placing the primary focus on the well being, development and aspirations of all people with whom it works while acknowledging that the welfare of children is our overriding concern.
• In people’s capacity for change.
• Paying full respect to people’s individuality, integrity, humanity and right to privacy, and to their wishes at any time.
• In all its dealings, to be honest and truthful; to allow full access to information; and to ensure that its processes are transparent.
• Avoiding discrimination on any grounds; offering accessible services to as wide a range of people in need as possible; ensuring that their views are fully represented.
• As far as their capacities and wishes allow, to encourage service users to become fully involved in all the activities and decisions which affect them, within proper limits of safety and good practice.
• Following the principles of the United Nations Conventions on Human Rights and on the Rights of the Child, encouraging people to exercise their rights and to achieve a proper balance between their rights and responsibilities.
• Working in partnership with any individual or organization operating in the same field and which shares the same aims and values.
• The Lilias Graham Trust fully subscribes to the principles of Social Justice and Social Inclusion as set out by the Scottish Government.
• These commit the Lilias Graham Trust to “promote opportunities, build stronger communities, promote inclusion and tackle the barriers to it”.
• The Lilias Graham Trust believes that all its work contributes to these objectives, with a particular focus on children, their families and individuals under stress or in difficulties of various kinds.
• In striving to achieve The Lilias Graham Trust aims, all work with service users, staff, volunteers, Board members and others, will be based on the above values.