Poverty awareness training being offered all next week in Fife.
During Challenge Poverty Week, we have put on extra training sessions around poverty, income maximisation and what help is available in Fife - Sign up and get involved !
The Poverty Alliance is staging a week long campaign with a Key note speech on Thursday 10th at 6pm with Professor Angela O’Hagan in her capacity as Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission.
Free tickets below
Annual Challenge Poverty Week Lecture Tickets, Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
Challenge Poverty Week - The Poverty Alliance
Families who are receiving free school meals will receive a payment of £24 per child for the October holidays. This is for those who have applied and are eligible due to household income, not the universal free school meals automatically provided for all children in P1 to P5. The payment will be paid direct into their bank account on the 9th October.
Parents not in receipt of free school meals should be encouraged to use The Fife Benefit Checker to ensure they are not missing out on any entitlement.
Increase your income | Cost of Living Support (fife.scot)
Cafe Inc is back across Fife for the October holidays for children and young people under 18.
No need to book, just turn up.
The list of locations, operating times and meal offerings can be found on the interactive map:
Cost of Living Support (fife.scot)
Over 200,000 disabled adults have now had their benefit award transferred to Social Security Scotland from the Department for Work and Pensions.
Transfer of benefits reaches major milestone - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
A significant improvement was ending the time-consuming and demanding re-assessments carried out by the DWP to decide if someone’s support should continue.
In Scotland these have been replaced with light touch reviews that ensure people are getting the right support without requiring them to provide unnecessary information or face a private sector assessment.
Joseph Rowntree has created short films showcasing the work of communities tackling hardship - click on the links to view :
The films highlight real examples of communities and local services coming together to tackle hardship in their neighbourhoods.
Please get in touch if you would like to know more about any of the updates this week,
Contact: Sheena Watson
Email: sheena.watson@fife.gov.uk
