News - Policy/Project
On Friday 22nd April, The Children’s Services and Glasgow Third Sector Interface Network teams at GCVS hosted a collaborative event with Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership. The focus of the event was around youth crime prevention and how Glasgow’s Youth...Read more...
Introducing THRE – Third Sector Human Rights and Equalities
THRE – Third Sector Human Rights and Equalities is a new nationwide project led by GCVS in partnership with HTSI and EVOC. THRE is working with Scotland’s Third Sector Interface organisations (TSIs) to develop resources, training and networks which support third...Read more...
Health in a Changing City – Session Recording and Notes
On 20 April, GCVS hosted a joint session with the Glasgow Centre for Population Health to discuss the recently published “Health in a Changing City” report. During the session, Bruce Whyte, Katharine Timpson and Mairi Young explored different sections of...Read more...
Glasgow Children’s Holiday Food Programme 2022/23
https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/24610/The-Childrens-Holiday-Food-Programme The Children’s Holiday Food Programme is now live for 2022/23 applications. Informed by Glasgow City Council’s Strategic Plan, the fund enables community organisations to provide healthy,...Read more...
COVID Recovery – Why Networks Matter More Than Ever
Hilda Campbell, Chief Executive of COPE Scotland has written a guest blog for our ‘Recovery’ series. The Recovery series considers how we might we move forward from the COVID pandemic, and examines what this means for health and social care services,...Read more...
Health and health inequalities in Glasgow – Recovery Event with GCPH
GCVS is delighted to be working with the Glasgow Centre for Population Health to deliver this next event in our ‘Recovery’ series. In order to recover after the last two years of the pandemic, it’s vital that we understand the scale of the...Read more...
Bureaucracy, Battles and Budgets: Learning from the “Our World Reimagined – Social Care” Series
As GCVS launches a report outlining learning from the ‘Our World Reimagined – Social Care’ series, our Health and Social Care Coordinator talks about the challenge of ‘recovering equally’ from the COVID-19 pandemic and how this starts for...Read more...
Recovering Health and Care with Pennie Taylor
Interviewer became interviewee in the first ‘Recovery’ session held by the GCVS Health and Care team on 14 March. The ‘Recovery’ series will look at what matters to the voluntary sector and to those we work with as the country and our city,...Read more...
Health & Social Care in Glasgow – Join the Conversation UPDATE
As health and social care services emerge from the impact of the COVID pandemic, Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership is inviting voluntary organisations and people who need and use these services to feed into its future plans. At a first, joint event on 2...Read more...
Recovering Health and Care Services
Recovering Health and Care Services Pennie Taylor, 8 March 2022 It is breath-taking to look back over the past couple of years and reflect on the learning curve. For me, the biggest revelations have involved the impact of the pandemic on social care – COVID starkly...Read more...
Recovery: What Next for Health and Social Care?
Our Health and Social Care Coordinator Lynn Williams discusses the current context for health and care, at a critical juncture in policy and service planning. This includes plans to reignite the Voluntary Sector Health and Care Network. Who are the Health and Social...Read more...
Third Sector Mental Health Services Report Launch
In 2021, the Citywide Forum’s Mental Health Network, supported by GCVS, carried out a survey to map the extent of third sector mental health and wellbeing services to children, young people and families across Glasgow. The survey identified 122 different third...Read more...
Compassionate Distress Response Service
Do you work with young people (16-25) who may experience emotional distress? The Compassionate Distress Response Service offers a listening ear to people who are experiencing acute emotional distress. It is operated by GAMH on behalf of Glasgow HSCP. People can be...Read more...
OWR Social Care – A Person Led Approach to Data in Social Care
GCVS, Mydex CIC and Scottish Care recently joined forces with GCVS for this fascinating instalment in the ‘Our World Reimagined – Social Care’ series on 15th November. You can access recording of this session here: Our World Reimagined – A...Read more...
GCVS and Strathclyde University Joint Co Production Event 25 Nov 2021 – Speaker Presentations
This joint event from GCVS and the University of Strathclyde sought to identify lessons and good practice during Scottish Co Production week. It was held on 25/11/21 with a truly international flavour! All of the presentations delivered have been pulled together...Read more...