The Eatwell Guide is now available on the NHS Inform website as a series of eight videos featuring the different food groups and recommendations on how to maintain a healthy, balanced and nutritious diet. There are also Keeping Active guidelines, which comprise four videos with advice for all ages on how to keep healthy physical activity activities.
Author archives: Alice Baird
Community food networks near you
The CFHS programme has been working with the Scottish Government Diet and Healthy Weight team and community food networks to map strategic and practical support for community food activities across Scotland. The mapping snapshot is almost complete and we will update sections of our website with this information over the coming weeks. Meanwhile, we found …
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Journey to the centre of the evidence
Our colleagues at CHEX have produced a new briefing, which puts the onus on statutory organisations and funders to unravel their old ways of working with and thinking about evidence so that they can make better use of evidence from communities and third sector and community organisations. The briefing can be found on the CHEX …
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Covid Recovery Strategy
The Scottish Government’s Covid Recovery Strategy states the Government’s vision for recovery and the actions it will take to address systemic inequalities made worse by Covid. The strategy is available on the Scottish Government website.
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Area of Work: Covid-19 information and resources
Good Food Nation Bill
The Scottish Government has introduced the Good Food Nation Bill into Parliament. The Bill aims to ensure Scottish Ministers, and public bodies such as local authorities and Health Boards produce Good Food Nation plans to support social and economic wellbeing, the environment, health and economic development. Information on the progress of the Bill can be …
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Support for community food
The CFHS programme team has recently been working with the Scottish Government’s Diet and Healthy Weight team and others to discuss how the community food sector has fared over the last two years. The aims include revisiting the discussions from the Scottish Government’s Community Food Summit held back in autumn 2019. This work was paused …
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Consultation on new approach to prevent food insecurity.
Proposals to end the need for food banks as a primary response to food insecurity have been published by the Scottish Government. Views are being sought on the Scottish Government’s draft national plan. The plan follows action during the pandemic to prevent food insecurity through strengthening household incomes and the delivery of cash-first responses to …
Posted in News, Research and consultations
Area of Work: Food poverty and access
A Fairer, Greener Scotland
The Scottish Government recently published its Programme for Government 2021-2022, which includes plans that will be of interest to the community food sector. ‘Land of opportunity’ plans to take steps to end the need for food banks in Scotland as a primary response; plans to roll out Food For Life across more primary schools and …
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Out of Home Action Plan
The Scottish Government recently published the Out of Home Action Plan, which will involve developing a voluntary framework for food outlets, to be undertaken by Food Standards Scotland and colleagues in the Diet and Healthy Weight team at PHS. It also has proposals for mandatory calorie labelling. More information about the framework can be found …
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Climate Action Hubs
The Scottish Government has supported the development of two Climate Action hubs; one run by Thurso Community Development Trust and covering activities in the North Highlands and Islands, and the other run by Aberdeen Climate Action, covering Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire. The aim of the hubs is to embed community-led climate action throughout these regions. The North Highlands …