News & Events

Children’s Hearings Scotland (CHS) is now recruiting volunteer Panel Members, and accepting online applications until 11:59pm on Monday 15th February. Panel Members take part in children’s hearings, often otherwise known as “children’s panels”, where their role is to listen and make legal decisions for, and with, infants, children and young people. Panel Members are supported by CHS, and are required to undertake comprehensive training to prepare them for the role.

The Third Sector Homelessness Fund is open to applications from third sector organisations on the frontline of delivering homelessness services in Scotland. The fund aims to support third sector organisations to innovate and transform the services they provide to people around homelessness; organisations that originally applied to this fund in early 2020 will need to complete a new application for funding. The deadline for applications is 12pm on Monday 8th February.

Falkirk and Clackmannanshire Carers Centre’s “Care with Confidence” Falkirk sessions return on Tuesday 26th January, with “Dentistry and Dementia”. Sessions take place via Zoom, 10:30am – 12pm. All carers are welcome, and sessions are free.

Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs (SFAD) is working with Scottish Government and other partner organisations to understand more about people’s experiences of using family support services, with an online “Ask the Family” survey. They ask that anyone aged 16 years old and over in Scotland, who is affected by alcohol or drug use (their own, or someone else’s), and who is being supported by family support services completes the survey.

Holyrood Events, sponsored by British Heart Foundation Scotland, is holding an online event, “Reducing Women’s Health Inequalities” on Thursday 4th February, 10am – 3pm. Attendees will hear about the information, support and treatment options available to women in Scotland, and have the opportunity to discuss how they can be improved. The event is free for groups and organisations from the third and public sectors, but there is a cost of £72.50 + VAT for attendees from the private sector.