Andrea’s Blog: Supporting people from disadvantaged backgrounds with their alcohol problems
Specialist Alcohol Service Helps to Break Down Barriers Alcohol causes significant health and socials harm to the Scottish population. People from the most deprived areas in Scotland experience greater inequalities […]
Scottish Community Link Worker Network: Demonstrating impact on health inequalities
On 29 March the Scottish Community Link Worker Network and Evaluation Support Scotland ran a short follow up session for those who had attended the training in December 2021 Demonstrating […]
Inquiry into Alternative Pathways to Primary Care spotlights link working
Alison Leitch, Community Link Worker Network Area Lead for North Edinburgh, was recently part of a panel presenting evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Health, Social Care and Sport Committee’s Inquiry […]
A Chance to Change Primary Care and Tackle Health Inequalities
Published on 14th March 2022, a new Scottish Government report sets out 23 recommendations for actions to be taken to help primary care play a stronger role in reducing health […]
Understanding the lived experience of COVID-19 for marginalised communities
Written by the Inclusion Health Lived Experience Research Working Group, on behalf of Inclusion Health Partnership. Background Research was conducted by the Inclusion Health Partnership to develop and deepen the […]
Action urged on underpayment of children’s social care workers
VHS is urging MSPs to ask Ministers to address the pay gap between the adult social care workforce and the children’s social care workforce. An inequity has been created because […]
What’s new? Read our March 2022 e- bulletin
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Scottish Community Link Worker Network is now on Twitter!
The Scottish Community Link Worker Network has now got its own Twitter account! You can find us and follow us @ScotCLWnetwork We hope that this will be another useful way […]
HPON Parliamentary Awareness Event
Thursday 31 March at 11:00-12:00. The Scottish Parliament’s Participation & Communities Team is organising an online Parliamentary Awareness Event for the Health Policy Officers Network (HPON) on Thursday 31 March […]
Health Policy Officers Network Discuss NPF4
Health Policy Officer Network meeting on NPF4 18 January 2022 Members of the network met to discuss the Scottish Government’s consultation on the draft National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4) and […]
