Posts Tagged ‘human rights’
Human Rights and Social Care: a conversation among friends
Human Rights and Social Care A conversation about social care connections At Outside the Box we want to encourage people to have conversations about how human rights and social care link together. We’ve shared blogs and talked about it at meetings about social care, but wanted to draw into the conversation people who have different…
Read MoreAge-friendly place making
Age-friendly place making Learning from age-friendly leaders across the world A reflection blog from our Community Development Adviser Ruth N, on intergenerational ideas she’s been hearing and learning about. Recently I’ve attended several webinars on related topics. The themes were age, placemaking, and strengthening community connections, wellbeing and resilience for all. The first of these was…
Read MoreSocial Care & human rights in Scotland – continuing the conversation
Social Care and human rights in Scotland Continuing the conversation There are lots of conversations happening in Scotland just now about what life will be like as we move on from Covid. Some of these are picking up issues that have been around for a long time but now have a new context and a…
Read MoreMoments of Freedom: International Women’s Day blog
Moments of Freedom: International Women’s Day blog ‘Even COVID can’t stop us: choose to challenge!’ The women from Moments of Freedom have decided to write a blog for International Women’s Day to share their journey over the past year …..and what a year it’s been! What have we achieved? “It’s been a tough year but…
Read MoreLocal People Linking: Human Rights training with Neighbourhood Networks
We are excited to deliver human rights training to Neighbourhood Networks this weekend, as part of our Local People Linking project. The training is an accessible way for us to: Bring people together with different experiences to share knowledge and learn more about the rights of people in their communities. Give people a space to…
Read MoreThoughts on the future of Human Rights in Scotland
The future of Human Rights in Scotland Where the conversation was A couple of years ago I attended a series of meetings on the review of SNAP (Scotland’s National Action Plan for Human Rights). I was shocked to discover that food was not recognised as a human rights in Scotland; and was very disappointed to…
Read MoreCo-production in Scotland & Wales: ideas and questions
Co-production ideas and questions from Scotland & Wales Co-production learning across Scotland and Wales As part of Co-production Week, I joined the co-production learning event hosted in partnership by the Scottish Co-production Network and the Co-Production Network for Wales. The zoom event brought people from the Scottish and Welsh Networks together to share our experiences…
Read MoreScottish Children’s Lottery funding for Eyemouth LINKS
Scottish Children’s Lottery funding for Eyemouth LINKS Eyemouth LINKS awarded a £8441 grant from the Scottish Children’s Lottery Chance to Flourish fund! During lockdown Eyemouth LINKS delivered 375 healthy ingredient bags, supporting families to cook at home and share meals virtually. Now the project will be able to continue thanks to £8441 from Chance to…
Read MoreHuman Rights Training with Neighbourhood Networks
We visited Neighbourhood Networks at their office in Govan to deliver our Human Rights training to their team. It was a really interesting session for us as we got to hear about how human rights plays a part in the work Neighbourhood Networks does every day with their communities. We looked at our existing ideas…
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