From the People’s Health Trust Local groups and organisations with great ideas to make their communities an even better place to live are now invited to apply for funding to turn their ideas into reality. People’s Health Trust has just launched Active...Read more...
A new report from Glasgow Centre for Population Health shows a growing divide between the health and mortality of women from the most affluent areas and those in poor areas. Figures in Glasgow are particularly stark – those in the most affluent parts of the city are...Read more...
Glasgow Community Planning Partnership is asking organisations in Glasgow to respond to their Health Check Survey, Click here to take the survey. This is the second year of the survey and partners are keen to get an update on views on how GCPP is functioning and...Read more...
Glasgow City Council is inviting applications for Day Care for Older People for 2016/18. The aim of the Fund is to improve outcomes and reduce inequalities by providing easily accessible, relevant, effective and efficient services in local communities with a focus on...Read more...
OSCR recently announced changes to how they monitor and review Scotland’s 24,000 charities. From 1 April, there will be increased information available on the Scottish Charity Register, with annual reports and accounts for larger income charities and charities that...Read more...
Find everything you need to know about Welfare Benefits & Reforms in this handy, pocket sized Quick Guide: Quick Guide to Welfare Benefits & Reforms March 2016 In this edition you’ll find a new section dedicated to Universal Credit, information about...Read more...
Glasgow City Council met today to put forward budget proposals that will see the city’s Integrated Grants Fund (IGF) cut by £6.15m this year. £3m of this will come from the decision to axe funding for 100 community police officers. Council employees will...Read more...
Opponents of the Scottish Government’s Getting it Right for Every Child Policy have taken their objections to the Supreme Court in order to get the Named Person provisions declared unlawful. The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 brought GIRFEC into law and...Read more...
With Glasgow City Council facing a huge hole in its finances, details are beginning to emerge on where cuts to services could fall. The Evening Times has reported that Glasgow Life’s running club, which employs a number of coaches across the city, will close in an...Read more...
The Scottish Government have published a discussion paper on Early Learning & Childcare. They are seeking to establish a programme of pilots/trials to test how best to deliver Early Learning and Childcare to meet the needs of all children and parents. The third...Read more...
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