Sustain has published a new guide: Home from hospital: ensuring people have access to food at hospital discharge and beyond. This guide summarises five key elements of ensuring people have support in place and includes examples of good practice from around the country. The guide can be downloaded from the Sustain website. A recording of …
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March e-bulletin
Our March e-bulletin includes information about linking your work to local policy as well as the latest events, training, consultations and reports. You can read our March e-bulletin here
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Children’s Healthier Eating Toolkit
This toolkit contains ten different activities to support families to make positive changes to their diet and can be used in a variety of settings. The toolkit is available to download here.
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New healthy eating resource for BSL users
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.
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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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Health in a Changing City
This new report from Glasgow Centre for Population Health (GCPH) reveals widening health inequalities across Glasgow and the early impacts of Covid-19. The report is available on the GCPH website.
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Rethinking Scotland
Carnegie UK ran a series of online conversations about Rethinking Scotland during the winter of 2020/21, asking for people’s views on what needs to happen and who needs to act to put some of Scotland’s big ideas into practice. The key action identified was to open up policy making to more diverse voices, and to …
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Eat Well guide for older people
Eat Well Age Well and Age Scotland have produced this guide, which provides information on how to eat a balanced diet and where to get support. You can download the guide on the Eat Well Age Well website or telephone 0131 447 8151 to order copies
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Area of Work: Older people
The Broken Plate 2021
The Food Foundation’s report on the state of the nation’s food system finds that healthier foods are three times more expensive (calorie for calorie) compared with less healthier foods. It also finds that children from lower income households are more likely to be obese than those from higher income households. The full Broken Plate report …
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Food bank use, poverty and mental health
Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Independent Food Aid Network have just published a new report exploring the impact of poverty and food bank use on people’s mental health. The report is available on the IFAN website.