If you have team members or colleagues that you think would like to attend any of the workshops, please can you ask them to sign up through the Health Promotion Training website - http://hptraining.fife.scot.nhs.uk.
The Scottish Fuel Poverty Advisory Panel provides independent advice to Scottish Ministers on fuel poverty and scrutiny of their progress towards delivering Scotland’s 2040 fuel poverty targets.
Matt Cole is the current Chair of this panel and the Head of the Fuel Bank. Last month he was interviewed about ways to address fuel poverty including a social tariff – interview linked below with details on how the panel sees as social tariff working .
Guest blog - what's the most effective way of eradicating fuel poverty? - The Poverty Alliance
The Improvement Service carried out a Social Return on Investment Analysis of the activities delivered by Cosy Kingdom. The analysis identified and put a financial value on the multiple changes that resulted.
Bruce McCall will describe the unique approach taken by Cosy Kingdom to both supporting over 4,000 households in Fife each year to reduce their energy use and delivering training and support to partner organisations.
He will be followed by Karen Carrick from the Improvement Service who will outline the processes used in the evaluation and set out the key findings. This will highlight the benefits Cosy Kingdom offers to people who use their services, other organisations in Fife, the environment and funders. All of which have been identified and valued.
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Trussell have published their latest parcel statistics this week that which reveal that they are continuing to see very high levels of food bank need in Scotland, with 122,000 parcels given out by food banks in the Trussell community in Scotland over 6 months.
1 in 3 of these parcels were for children and overall, 60% of all parcels went to families with children aged 0-16.
Carer’s Allowance Supplement is an automatic payment to recognise the vital contribution made by unpaid carers in local communities across Scotland.
It is paid twice a year to people who were paid Carer Support Payment from Social Security Scotland or Carer’s Allowance from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) on two qualifying dates earlier in the year.
The second annual Carer’s Allowance Supplement payment of £288.60 will be made on Friday 6 December 2024.
It will be awarded to people who were eligible on the qualifying date of 7 October. The first payment of £288.60 was made on 7 June 2024.
Eligible carers are written to in advance, so they know when to expect the payment. If carers have not received the payment or heard from us by 16 December 2024, they should call Social Security Scotland free on 0800 182 2222.
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
