Indigo Insights

The past year has been a year like none other, full of up’s and down’s, changes and often challenging. For me, like many others it has shown the importance of families and communities coming together and supporting each other. However, one of the changes that I have been very grateful for is the opportunity to join #TeamIndigo in January as the new Family Support Co-ordinator. Starting a new job in the New Year, in a new lockdown, was a new experience for me! Instead of meeti

As the dreaded phrase (quick! cover your ears) HOME LEARNING looms over parents across Scotland, some of us are thankful to see it nearing an end with others building their patience and energies for a longer stint! From the start, with the added pressures of family commitments, working from home and keeping children purposefully busy while at home – #teamindigo knew we would have to work fast to support our families. We are glad for our Early Years families it is now nearing

Is Christmas @ Indigo cancelled due to Covid????? It certainly is not! Like everything else about 2020 and as with every other event this year, #teamindigo have come together to make Christmas just as special this year for our children and families. We kicked off the festive season by decorating our playrooms as we always do with our Christmas trees, decorations, etc. This year we decided to go all out and launched our #indigoswindaewonderland which saw our very talented team

March 23rd was such a strange day in so many ways, as I have said before but for #TeamIndigo, emotions were at peak. We were saying bye to our children, not knowing when we were going to see them again, the uncertainty of what was going on for our families, our jobs, the organisation – everything was up in the air. As ever staff prioritized the children and families and demonstrated leadership at every level across the organisation by getting involved in identifying what need

What has that meant for our families and our team? Whilst we could see it coming the week before, the team sat down and watched the first minister’s press conference, explaining, as of the evening of Monday 23rd March, Scotland, alongside the rest of the UK, would go into “lockdown”! What on earth did that actually mean? As we had done for the previous week or so, #TeamIndigo sprang into action, furiously trying to understand what this meant for our families, for our staff an

The conversations that transpired from Indigo Eats, alongside the feedback on various social media channels we were able to inform our next steps. One of those has been the launch of Indigo TV. I’m sure a BAFTA is calling next year for some of the team’s performances! A TV Guide supported by an Activity Guide is released every week for Early Years, Out of School Care and Youth services. Please see the examples below: These offer a range of online videos from Indigo staff with