Health and wellbeing

Frontline workers, including in schools and the NHS, are being given new guidance to help prevent children and vulnerable adults from being drawn into organised crime.

The first document of its kind in Scotland, the ‘Practitioner Guidance on Criminal Exploitation’ stems from work commissioned last year by the Serious Organised Crime Taskforce. 

£1.8million for new dermatology service.

A new national digital dermatology programme will be launched to help speed up treatment and reduce waiting lists.

People and businesses are being urged to use water carefully as dry weather conditions are expected to persist and water demand is rising.

Community-accessible woodland
Name of organisation/business: 
The Ecology Centre
Funding: 
Rural and Island Communities Ideas into Action - £17,542

Rural child poverty webinar for community councillors

The Improvement Service is hosting a free webinar on rural child poverty for community councillors on Tuesday 20th June from 3pm to 4pm.

The combination of COVID 19 and the cost-of-living crisis has put enormous pressure on already stretched family budgets, not least in remote, rural and island authorities. This comes at a time when the Scottish Government has pledged to significantly reduce child poverty across Scotland by 2030. 

There is still time to take part in the Scottish Government review of the National Outcomes, which closes on the 12 June 2023. The review is required within every five years, under the Community Empowerment Act (2015).

Fireworks can cause distress to people suffering from phonophobia as well as to livestock, animals in their natural habit and pets. To help address this, extra measures to prevent the misuse of fireworks and pyrotechnics in public places, including sporting and live music events, have come into force to help protect public safety. 

SCCAN Storyteller Collective: Podcast Skillshare

Join SCCAN on Wednesday, 28 June, 7-8pm, for a chat and Q&A with a podcaster Kathi . She will share her experience of creating her travel podcast Wild for Scotland.

Many of Scotland’s most popular natural sites are receiving a staffing boost this summer, with Scottish Government funding of £900,000 to support better visitor management and help safeguard the environment for visitors and local communities.

The NatureScot Better Places funding will go directly to 24 countryside, coast and island projects across Scotland, enabling an additional 62 staff to be employed this summer across Scotland.

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