Covid-19 & 3rd Sector Update 22/09/2021
LOCAL & NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
SERVICE UPDATES
PREMISES & TECHNOLOGY
FORUMS & NETWORKS
FUNDING
TRAINING & LEARNING
RESEARCH & BLOGS
LOCAL & NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
Police Scotland: Police Scotland is encouraging the friends and family of people living with dementia to sign up to the Herbert Protocol on International Alzheimer’s Day. The organisation is today (Tuesday, 21 September, 2021) adopting a single national process to help officers quickly obtain information about a vulnerable missing person who has dementia, saving vital time in the early stages of an investigation. The national implementation of the Herbert Protocol has been developed in partnership with Police Scotland, Health and Social Care Scotland, Alzheimer Scotland and the Scottish Government. Carers or family members can download the Herbert Protocol form from the Police Scotland website, or request a copy from local Health & Social Care Partnership staff, or other agencies, including Alzheimer Scotland.
SERVICE UPDATES
Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sectorare giving Free Health & Safety Resources in our area on a first-come, first-served basis, a free pack of Health & Safety resources as part of the National Lottery Community Fund funded Health & Safety Service at GCVS
The resource pack includes:
An Accident Book - the Accident Book is an essential document for organisations and staff, who are required by law to record and report work-related accidents, incidents and injuries.
HSE Health & Safety Law Poster laminated A3 - organisations are required to clearly display this in their premises.
They have a limited supply of the packs, please only request one copy if you need it.
East Lothian Climate Action Network (ELCAN)is a coalition of climate action
groups in East Lothian including Sustaining Dunbar, Climate Action East Linton
and East Linton Tool Library. ELCAN will officially launch in January 2022 with a programme of guest speakers talking on a diverse range of climate related topics. To become a member or discuss any aspect of East Lothian Climate Action Network, contact Rosie Harrison:elclimateactionnetwork@gmail.com In addition, members can join via the Facebook group, FLYER
Social Security Scotland – Child Disability Payment Events: Following the successful pilot of Child Disability Payment in Dundee, Perth & Kinross and the Western Isles. Social Security Scotland will be launching Child Disability Payment nationally this Autumn. Child Disability Payment will replace Disability Living Allowance for Children, which is currently delivered by the Department for Work and Pensions. It has been designed to provide extra money to help with the costs of caring for a child with a disability or ill-health condition.
Child Disability Payment general information webinar
Grassroots Clothing is a Scottish charity that provides high quality interview clothes to disadvantaged men in need. Clothes can allow a man to be at his best at a crucial moment in his life, giving him the confidence, the self-belief and the practical tools required to succeed at an interview and transform his life. We receive referrals from a variety of Third Sector organisations, including mental health charities, prisons, homeless shelters as well as the Department of Work & Pensions. Many men have been unsuccessful in multiple applications and have been turned down from numerous jobs. All are suffering from a lack of confidence in their own abilities. For referrals and information email heather.grassrootsclothing@gmail.com or graham.grassrootsclothing@gmail.com 07599 247 551 or 07599 247 552 WEBSITE Here is a link to the referral form. You must download and save the form before filling it in, otherwise the next person who clicks on the link will see your information. REFERRAL FORM
British Red Cross is running a Winter Radio show (Activity Information Motivation) Black Diamond 107.8 FM. Every Thursday for 6 weeks starting the 7th of October 3pm – 4pm
Information on speakers, (GP, Podiatry, Benefits, Befriending, Winter heating, Poetry, Short story’s etc.),
Weekly Quizzes for a chance of winning a prize.
Activity Packs choose up to two items (Jigsaw, paint by numbers, word search/crosswords, xmas crafts).
You can join the Radio show to find out what support is available through the winter months plus information on vaccine booster and flu jag information, eating well, keeping active at home etc. or if you would just like an activity pack to keep you motivated during the dark night. 0131 654 0340
MYPAS: Family Counsellor (Young People) – East Lothian, 35 hours per week, £30,473 - £32,260 (pro-rata) Contract until November 2022 Based in Dalkeith, Midlothian. MYPAS promotes the health and wellbeing of young people across East Lothian and Midlothian and currently focuses on working in the areas of mental health and substance use. ADVERT
PREMISES & TECHNOLOGY
Cybersecurity:The CyberScotland Bulletin is designed to provide you with information about the latest threats, scams, news and updates covering cyber security and cyber resilience topics. This bulletin has lots of useful information and resources, including: NCSC Threat Report; The importance of software updates; Parcel delivery scams; Incident Response Pack; Safe Student; The Art of saying No; Training and webinars. CYBERSECURITY
Incident Response Plan:Developing an incident response plan is a critical step towards preparing a robust and effective incident management and technical response capability. Good incident management will help reduce the financial and operational impact on your business. CyberScotland Partner, Scottish Business Resilience Centre, have created a Cyber Incident Response Pack that contains documents to help support your organisation plan your response to a cyber incident. The documents will compliment any existing Incident Response Plan or assist you in creating one.PLAN
FORUMS & NETWORKS
Forums
Health & Social Care Forum: 23rd 3pm - 4pm Register
Welcome & Introductions
Food Friendly Network - Ruth Davie
Poverty Plan - Paolo Vestri (ELC)
State of the Sector Survey – Maureen Alan
National care Service Consultation – Maureen Alan
AOB
Children, Young People & Families Forum: 7th Oct 21 10-12pm Request Membership
Third Sector Forum: Thu 2nd Dec 21 2-3pm Register
Network & Learn Meetings
Social Enterprise: Thu 30th Sep 21 3-4pm Register
FUNDING
Keeping Families Together Fund: Fewer children and young people should end up in care by 2030, thanks to a £500 million fund to help support families to stay together.
Announced as part of the latest Programme for Government, the Whole Family Wellbeing Fund is set to help families overcome challenges before they reach crisis point. Find out more
Clubs in Crisis Fund: The Clubs in Crisis Fund from Made by Sport supports sports clubs and organisations delivering sport for development that have been negatively affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a national fund being delivered locally by community foundations across the UK. Foundation Scotland is distributing all funding across Scotland. The fund aims to support sports clubs and youth organisations that deliver sport for development to recover from the pandemic's impact, and continue their work to achieve social outcomes through sport. Specifically, the fund is looking to support clubs and organisations that intentionally deliver wider social outcomes through sport. These outcomes must fall into one or more of the following categories: - Developing Life Skills - Improving Mental Health - Reducing Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour - Developing Employability Skills - Building Stronger Communities Funding is unrestricted but should clearly meet the criteria of delivering sport for development for young people. All funding for Round 3 must be spent by successful applicants by March 2022. Next deadline: 25th October 2021. Apply online via Foundation Scotland website.
Robertson Trust: Do you want to have a chat about a potential application? As part of their ongoing support, The Robertson Trust has 1:1 sessions available for new applicants between 09:30 and 14:30 on Monday 29th September 2021. Book your session here.
TRAINING & LEARNING
Lead Scotlandare hosting a series of webinars on Zoom commencing October 13th about accessibility in digital content. The webinars will examine the most common accessibility problems within digital content and instruct participants how to avoid these issues. These webinars are intended for people looking to improve their employability through enhancing their digital expertise.
The webinars are hosted via Zoom you can attend as many of the webinars as you would like, but you must register for each one individually. There is more information about the webinars and details of how to register on theLead Scotland website. Please direct email enquiries toBuildBackDigital@Lead.org.uk,FLYER
Challenge Poverty Week:Social Security Scotland want to take the opportunity to share with you how the work of Social Security Scotland directly relates to the key messages of Challenge Poverty week. We would be delighted if you would join us on Wednesday 6thOctober at 11am for a short presentation to hear about Social Security Scotland, how our work relates to Challenge Poverty week and for a quick introduction to the Local Delivery teams across East, Mid and West Lothian ahead of the launch of our face to face service in November of this year. This will be held on Microsoft Teams, showing a short PowerPoint presentation (approximately 20 minutes) with time for questions at the end. Please sign up hereSocial Security Scotland - Local Delivery (Lothians) - Challenge Poverty Weekand please feel free to share this link wider.
Public Protection Office:Responding to Disclosure of Rape and Sexual Abuse, Wednesday 8th December 2021, 9:30am – 12 noon. This training will focus on developing an understanding of the extent and nature of sexual violence including an exploration of myths and attitudes towards sexual violence in society. Participants will develop an understanding of trauma responses, how they can present and how to best respond to disclosures including an understanding of how relevant services such as Rape Crisis can support survivor. This training is aimed at people working in East Lothian or Midlothian, who would like to feel more confident in their responses to survivors who disclose sexual violence. You must download and save the form before filling it in, otherwise the next person who clicks on the link will see your informationRESPONDING TO DISCLOSURE
Public Protection:Public Protection Is Everyone’s Responsibility, Wednesday 17th November 2021, 9.30am – 12.30pm This training is for any staff member in East Lothian and Midlothian who has not previously completed any Public Protection training. It provides a basic awareness of child protection, adult support and protection and violence against women and girls. The protection of children, young people and adults at risk of harm is everyone’s responsibility and this course aims to ensure that all employees across both Councils and 3rd sector organisations understand what public protection is, what to do and where to go if they have concerns or if they think someone is at risk of harm. You must download and save the form before filling it in, otherwise the next person who clicks on the link will see your informationPUBLIC PROTECTION
CAPSPeople’s Conference is coming up! We are holding our second online People’s Conference on Wednesday the 29thSeptember 2021. The event will start with an opening session from 11am – 12pm looking at what involvement of people with lived experience means in reality. We will have stories from members of our Lothian Voices steering group of their own experiences of involvement and have an open discussion about the issues around involvement. The event will start with an opening session from 11am – 12pm looking at what involvement of people with lived experience means in reality. We will have stories from members of our Lothian Voices steering group of their own experiences of involvement and have an open discussion about the issues around involvement. After a lunch break from 1pm we will have 2 workshops that everyone will be able to attend. One of these will be facilitated by staff from Scottish Recovery Network looking at how we can achieve meaningful involvement and the second will be facilitated by CAPS staff looking at what trauma informed involvement looks like. The final session of the day will be all together and will look to create our own ‘Recipe’ for involvement!, The event will finish at 4.30pm Throughout the day there will be regular breaks and a few fun creative activities, along with some entertainment in the form of songs and poems from members of the Lothian Voices steering group! If you would like to attend or would like more information please get in contact with Ele onele@capsadvocacy.org or 07948 740 158.
Communities Channel Scotland and the Social Impact Pledge:The redeveloped Communities Channel Scotland website and Social Impact Pledge have been launched today, making them even more helpful to community groups across Scotland in their amazing work with their communities. Community groups, and anyone who works with them, are invited to visit the website and take advantage of its updated features, such as…
Straightforward guides to key developments and policy affecting community groups, including climate change, covid-19 and what’s currently happening around human rights in Scotland.
Easily searchable collections of resources, including tools, ideas for funding and relevant support organisations, to help you carry out your activities and achieve your aims.
Inspiring examples of community groups in action, covering everything from emergency responses to Covid-19 to creative ways of engaging with people.
The Social Impact Pledge, which asks public bodies to commit to making changes to what they do that have a direct benefit for communities and community groups.
All the latest news from, and relevant to, community groups in Scotland.
Click here to visit Communities Channel ScotlandCOMMUNITIES CHANNEL
Evaluation Support Scotland:Over the next few months, ESS will support a cohort of third sector organisations toevaluateandlearnabout the impact of their partnerships with statutory organisations. We are doing this in partnership with SCVO, COSLA and Scottish Government and will use learning to influence positive partnership in the future. Please click here to find out moreWe welcome applications from any third sector organisation who has partnered with a public sector organisation during the pandemic. Please apply by completing this very short form.If you have any queries please email Nicola (nicola@evaluationsupportscotland.org.uk)
Social Enterprise Scotland has a range of free training events for social enterprises: SES EVENTS
RESEARCH & BLOGS
IMPORTANT COVID UPDATE Supporting Communities Safely | SCDC - We believe communities matter: helpful guidance has been refreshed, https://www.scdc.org.uk/supporting-communities-safely
Draft Poverty Plan Survey: The on-line consultation on the Draft East Lothian Poverty Plan 2021-2023 is now live. It can be accessed using the following link:
https://eastlothianconsultations.co.uk/policy-partnerships/draft-poverty-plan-survey-2021
The closing date for the on-line survey is 26th September.
The online consultation includes two separate streams of questions so respondents can complete the survey either as an individual or on behalf of an organisation.
