In our guest blog post, Brenda Black from Edinburgh Community Food gives us reasons on why we should respond to the Scottish Government consultation paper on ‘Ending the need for food banks’ and gives us a few tips to help us. How does the draft national plan hope to succeed in ending the need for …
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Guest Blog post: Make sure your views are heard on ending the need for food banks
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CFHS November e-bulletin
Our latest ebulletin covers community food initiatives and COP26, Scottish Government consultations on Ending the need for food banks and local food, information about funding and events, and much more. You can read the e-bulletin here. November CFHS e-bulletin
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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 …
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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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December CFHS e-bulletin
Our December e-bulletin includes a blog post from Edinburgh Community Food – encouraging us to respond to the Scottish Government consultation to End the need for food banks. There’s also information about a Best Start Foods update, veg pledges and the price of veg, funding and events. You can read the CFHS e-bulletin here