Pilot projects aimed at improving children’s health by providing targeted health-related services at school were unveiled yesterday by the Scottish Government as the first Equally Well implementation plan was published. The first children’s health and wellbeing support pilot gets underway in South Ayrshire in January, followed by others in Moray, West Lothian and Clackmannanshire. Public …
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New CFHS report – study tours to Aberdeen and Edinburgh
In September 2008, we ran two tours to organisations in Aberdeen and Edinburgh delivering services for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and operating as social enterprises. A short report on the study tours is now available to download from the Conferences and Networking section of the Publications Library.
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Getting Down to Business – new CFHS report
The report and evaluation of the Getting Down to Business seminars, which offered participants in Edinburgh and Inverness the opportuniity to find out more about becoming a social enterprise, is now available to download from the Business and Project Development section of the Publications Library.
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Consumer Focus Scotland
The Scottish Consumer Council (SCC), energywatch (Scotland) and Postwatch (Scotland) merged on 1st October 2008. The new stronger consumer organisation is known as Consumer Focus Scotland. All the development projects currently based at the SCC, including Community Food and Health (Scotland), will continue their award winning work as part of Consumer Focus Scotland.
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Fare Choice Issue 45
Fare Choice Issue 45 is now available to download from the Our Newsletters section of the Publications Library.
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Out to Lunch
The Scottish Consumer Council, soon to form part of the new agency Consumer Focus Scotland, has recently launched the findings from a survey they commissioned of S3 and S4 pupils at three different schools to examine why young people chose to take their lunch outside school and what they bought to eat. Download Out to …
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Takeway Health: how takeaway restaurants can affect your chances of a healthy diet
The National Consumer Council (soon to become part of the new agency Consumer Focus) published an interesting report on take-aways earlier in the summer. The study looked at nutritional information available to consumers using the country’s leading take-away chains. It also looked at what information consumers would expect and how they would use it. Download …
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Cut-price, what cost?
‘Cut-price, what cost? How supermarkets can affect your chances of a healthy diet’ is the fourth in a series of reports in which the National Consumer Council (soon to become part of the new agency Consumer Focus) rates the UK’s top eight supermarkets on how they help their customers shop, cook and eat more healthily. …
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Nutrition and Addiction
A recent publication by Glasgow Addiction Services summarises the key findings from a scoping exercise looking at the nutritional care currently provided within their service. The report found that there were high levels of nutritional problems amongst service users and identified some gaps in the service, including the need for more robust nutritional screening procedures, …
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Support for children and families
A transformational framework to improve the life chances of Scotland’s children and tackle inequalities by targeting the early years was launched by the Scottish Government and COSLA last week. The Early Years Framework, developed in collaboration with independent experts during the past nine months, sets out a radical shift away from the culture of crisis …