No one in the UK should have to turn to a food bank to survive. Like and RT if you agree. 💚

A Giant on the Bridge will have: ✨ Audio description on 14 August ✨ Captioning on 15 August For more info: [email protected] For tickets: tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/giant…

See my comment on the Scottish Government’s Public Consultation on Policy Proposals relative to the Children’s Hearings Redesign published today

We go to work and pay our tax’s to give all children the best start in life, but we end paying a large chunk of our wage so strangers can look after our children during the most formative years of their lives! No wonder this culture is stressed out its box !!!

The Scottish Physical Restraint Action Group (SPRAG) and The Promise Scotland are hosting a webinar on improving post-incident practice. If you work in residential child care, this is for you: buff.ly/3XQLVtp

Our allotment provides a therapeutic, calming environment for people undertaking unpaid work to learn new skills and connect with nature. Produce is donated to local foodbanks & #community cafes in #Fife. This haul was delivered to The Lomond Centre in Glenrothes. 🥔🥕🫛

The Council has launched a new podcast on sentencing in Scotland, with the first episode focussing on community sentencing. bit.ly/3WsjvDC

Thank you for inviting me, it was great to chat all things #UNCRC

Never even liked tennis anyway.

Again James, the wisest of words…continually trying (and failing) to treat the symptoms diverts attention and resources from trying to cure the illness

There are still some places left for this fantastic event with Disclosure Scotland exploring everything you need to know about the current safeguarding landscape in Scotland. 🗓️Thursday 29, August 🕙10-12pm Sign up here 👇tickettailor.com/events/childre…

Tomorrow our Chief Inspector, Wendy Sinclair-Gieben, will publish her sixth and final annual report before she stands down on Friday 30 August. She will report on many concerns including the entrenched issue of overcrowding in Scotland’s prisons.

Brilliant, we all need to understand that trauma makes you very vulnerable to manipulation. From child exploitation all the way through to ideology, and everything in between!

"We can make progress only by radically rethinking, and reducing, our reliance on imprisonment." Emma Jardine, policy and public affairs manager at HowardLeagueScotland shares her views on overcrowding in Scotland's prisons ➡️ 1919magazine.co.uk/august2024/?i=…

"More than a number, more than a prisoner"...... masterful creative work with a purpose- what an honour to get to see this live... A Giant on the Bridge Solareye

Nearly everyday I speak with people who have recreated their lives. They have overcome horrendous experiences and still show up with compassion to serve others. Compassion and unity is what creates long term change. Hate and division is unsustainable because it’s never stable ✌🏼

🚨 Recovery Walk Announcement 🚨 No space for hate on Recovery Walk day. Get this in your diary folks fun for all the family 💜 #RecoveryWalk

Delighted to see angela sheridan and Steven lead our Epione Trauma Training & Consultancy Train The Trainer enhanced course as part of the South Ayrshire Council vision led by the inimitable Angi Pinkerton Dedicated to building an informed & #TraumaResponsiveScotland

"We are locking mentally ill people into a cell & leaving them alone. I just think it's wrong. I think people looking at it (in the future) will think 'oh my goodness, surely we didn't do that'." For that not to be our future we need to do something now. lbc.co.uk/news/prisoners…

Why is Angels & Demons not subtitled for the deaf when the Da Vinci Code and Inferno are…please stop discriminating against deaf people and be like Netflix where EVERYTHING is subtitled