CyberScotland Bulletin - May 2025 - updated 02/06/2025
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Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) Newsletter. Health and Social Care e-Bulletin Mon 02/06/2025
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Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) Newsletter. Health and Social Care e-Bulletin Mon 02/06/2025
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CyberScotland Bulletin - May 2025 30/05/2025
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Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) Newsletter. News and events from across the Third Sector Fri 30/05/2025
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Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) Newsletter. News and events from across the Third Sector Fri 30/05/2025
“This will be devastating for all of us”: why welfare reforms don’t need to happen - Third Force News (TFN)
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26 May 2025
by Emma Jackson
Emma Jackson on new benefits proposals
"Please tell me they won’t take away my benefits, there’s no way I can go back to work. My health has deteriorated so badly".
Launch of the National Induction Framework for social care - Care Inspectorate
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Scotland’s National Induction Framework for social care, developed by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), launched on 14 May 2025. This new initiative aims to provide free, induction training for adult social care workers across Scotland, providing a consistent, efficient, and accessible learning experience. Read more here.
The above information is from a Care Inspectorate Newsletter Care News Wed 28/05/2025
Care Home Improvement Programme - Care Inspectorate
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Building on the success of the first cohort in Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Forth Valley, in April 2024, the Care Inspectorate launched the second cohort of the care home improvement programme (CHIP) in Tayside and Fife, running from October 2024 to March 2025. The flash report from Cohort 1 can be read here.
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Call for mandatory sensory tests for all dementia assessments - Third Force News (TFN)
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22 May 2025
by Rab Armour
Sensory impairment leads to wider social implications
People living with dementia in Scotland face poor care and social isolation, or at worst falling through the cracks of care, new research published today suggests.
Hearing and sight assessments are not routinely being carried out as part of dementia assessments, according to the new data published by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland.
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Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) Newsletter. Health and Social Care e-Bulletin Mon 19/05/2025
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Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) Newsletter. Health and Social Care e-Bulletin Mon 19/05/2025
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Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) Newsletter. News and events from across the Third Sector Fri 16/05/2025
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Fife Voluntary Action (FVA) Newsletter. News and events from across the Third Sector Fri 16/05/2025
The challenges of maintaining good mental health while facing a long-term, worsening condition
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12 May 2025
by Jo Anderson
This Mental Health Awareness Week (Monday 12 to Sunday 18 May), Jo Anderson discusses the link between multiple sclerosis and mental wellbeing, and the importance of developing a holistic approach
Sector at odds as MSPs poised to vote on Assisted Dying Bill - Third Force News (TFN)
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13 May 2025
by Rab Armour
Hugely controversial bill has split the sector
Campaigners have warned that the risks around allowing assisted dying are too high.
It comes as MSPs are poised to vote on legislation today at the Scottish Parliament.
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Fascinating insight into the role fundraising has made in healthcare - Third Force News (TFN)
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9 May 2025
by Rab Armour
Without public generosity people's health would have suffered
A new research report highlights the crucial role of historic fundraising in shaping experiences of healthcare today.
The challenges of maintaining good mental health while facing a long-term, worsening condition - Third Force News (TFN)
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12 May 2025
by Jo Anderson
This Mental Health Awareness Week (Monday 12 to Sunday 18 May), Jo Anderson discusses the link between multiple sclerosis and mental wellbeing, and the importance of developing a holistic approach
We are looking for young volunteers! From the Care Inspectorate Mon 05/05/2025
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Hashtags and accessibility - Third Force News (TFN)
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29 April 2025
by Marina Ramsay
Marina Ramsay on an important step we can take to improve accessibility in communications
Ever thought about how hashtags sound on screen readers?
Imagine hearing: “we’re opening our hash new store in hash Edinburgh to sell hash bread.” It can be quite annoying, right?
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Respite care charity rated as “sector leading” in Care Inspectorate report - Third Force News (TFN)
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28 April 2025
by Niall Christie
A report was produced on Leuchie House in East Lothian.
A Scottish respite care charity has received a glowing report from the Care Inspectorate.
Club Optimeyes - New social group for young people who are blind and partially-sighted
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Dementia Carers Education Programme - nhsfife - Fife Voluntary Action (FVA)
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Women's campaigners celebrate court win - but what will it change? bbc.co.uk/news
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Struggling pet owners thrown a bone by charity - Third Force News (TFN)
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11 April 2025
by Robert Armour
Service supports owners to help feed their pets
A charity has helped pet owners by handing out almost 70,000 meals for their animals.
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Caring too much? Study shows how fundraisers experience trauma - Third Force News (TFN)
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10 April 2025
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Raising cash for charities can take a devastating toll - and more support must be given, finds new research
Fundraisers can – and often do – experience the same type of trauma as frontline charity workers, new research has shown.
A syndrome – known as secondary vicarious trauma – results from indirect exposure, such as through photographs and stories, to the real life factors that induce stress.
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Health and care statistics - Official statistics relating to health and care across the UK four nations
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As Labour government chooses warfare over welfare, Scottish civil society reacts with fury - Third Force News (TFN)
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27 March 2025
by Graham Martin
Spring statement: “these cruel cuts are out of touch with what voters want from this government"
Scotland’s charities have reacted with dismay and anger at the UK Labour government’s decision to slash welfare spending.
Walking Scotland’s rural economy to a healthier future - Guest post, Third Force News (TFN)
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27 March 2025
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Brendan Paddy highlights the immense financial gains walking brings to Scotland
Why do people come to Scotland? Whisky, golf, castles… midges? All of the above… (well, maybe not the last). But what's missing? People come to Scotland to walk.
Welfare cuts: what sort of society are we choosing to build? - Third Force News (TFN)
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27 March 2025
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The spring statement: Personal Independent Payments are economic drivers and social enterprises' employability stats are evidence of this, says Andy Paterson
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Equality and Human Rights Commission New strategic plan for 2025 to 2028 e-Bulletin Thu 27/03/2025
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Brand-new changes to PVG/Disclosure - Fife Voluntary Action (FVA)
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CyberScotland Bulletin - March 2025 21/03/2025
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Fear and loathing: Scotland's most vulnerable hit worst by UK welfare reforms - Third Force News (TFN)
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18 March 2025
by Robert Armour
Scots will find it harder financially to live with a disability say campaign groups
UK government ministers are “punching down” choosing to target the disabled and most needy as part of sweeping cuts to disability benefits.
Groups have condemned the announcement to scythe £5 billion of the welfare budget by 2030 saying it is a catastrophe for disabled peoples’ living standards and independence.
- Citizens Advice Scotland project expanded with additional funding - Third Force News (TFN)
- Sign up to our new digital social care newsletter - Care Inspectorate
- Strengthening our protection procedures - Care Inspectorate
- Factsheet on supporting meaningful connection when people are living with dementia - Care Inspectorate
- Mental health charity launches nationwide campaign - Third Force News (TFN)
- Benefit system is failing disabled people - Third Force News (TFN)
- Care Inspectorate Newsletter "Volunteer with us" Wed 05/03/2025
- Pilot project could help care leavers gain financial security - Third Force News (TFN)
- Charities call on the public to play its part in tackling mental illness stigma - Third Force News (TFN)
- Heating cost help - Winter Heating Payment (WHP) has replaced the UK Government’s Cold Weather Payment (CWP) in Scotland
- Heating cost help - Winter Heating Payment (WHP) has replaced the UK Government’s Cold Weather Payment (CWP) in Scotland
- Heating cost help - Winter Heating Payment (WHP) has replaced the UK Government’s Cold Weather Payment (CWP) in Scotland
- Winter Heating Payment (WHP) has replaced the UK Government’s Cold Weather Payment (CWP) in Scotland
- Heating cost help - Winter Heating Payment (WHP) has replaced the UK Government’s Cold Weather Payment (CWP) in Scotland
- Findings from consultation with family carers of people who live in care homes - Care Inspectorate
- Older people's charity proves its worth helping public to recover benefits - Third Force News (TFN)
- New guide to promote employment of 16 and 17-year olds in social care - Care Inspectorate
- Charity’s at-home hospice care to end after contract terminated - Third Force News (TFN)
- Renewed partnership to boost disability sport in Scotland - Third Force News (TFN)
- Scottish Government announces £60m in multi-year funding deals - Third Force News (TFN)
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