Strategic Plan Update

Family Nurse Partnership Celebrates 10-year Anniversary

The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) is celebrating its 10-year anniversary and marking the occasion by bringing staff and clients together to recognise their decade-long achievements.

The FNP is a person-centred, preventative intervention programme offered to young first-time parents aged 19 or under, and their children. The programme is evidence based and is delivered in the parents’ own homes. It’s designed to cover the first crucial 1,001 days of life, from early pregnancy until the child reaches the age of two years old.  

Glasgow's cared for children to share £2.6m before Christmas

£2.6m will be shared among 6,500 vulnerable children and families in time for Christmas.

On Wednesday 30 November, the Glasgow City Integration Joint Board approved recommendations to fund the one-off £400 winter payment to looked after children.

Foster Carers will also receive an increase of £15 per week starting from January 2023.

Councillors carry naloxone kits to help save lives

Glasgow councillors are being trained to use Naloxone - a drug which can help prevent fatal overdoses.

Glasgow’s Health Social Care Partnership (GCHSCP) arranged training following a visit to the city’s North East Recovery Community by Councillor Declan Blench, chair of the North East Area Planning Partnership.

Glasgow Celebrates its Care Experienced Young People on Open Day

Children and young people who are care experienced have a lot to celebrate, and Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership’s (HSCP) Care Leavers Open Day is one way that we support and recognise the achievements and talents of our care experienced individuals. 

Launch of 16 + Review

Glasgow Marks Carers Rights Day 2022

On Thursday 24 November, we marked Carers Rights Day and raised awareness of the unsung heroes of our communities, unpaid carers.

This year, the campaign focused on the many ways in which caring costs affect unpaid carers – from carers’ wellbeing and ability to access health services, to costs to their finances and employment options, to the current cost of living crisis that’s being felt even more acutely by carers throughout the UK. 

Glasgow City HSCP Buildings / Services Open to the Public During the Holiday Period

Over the festive period all public social work offices will remain open between 08:45am to 4.45pm (Monday to Thursday) and 08.45am to 3.55pm (Friday) but will be closed on the following public holidays: 

Nativity Scene Brings Christmas Cheer to Residents at Meadowburn Care Home in Pollok. 

A beautiful nativity scene, on display in the foyer of Meadowburn Care Home in Pollok, is bringing Christmas cheer to our HSCP’s care home residents.

A wooden stable and manger built by Meadowburn’s Operations Manager Paul Costello houses nativity figures including Joseph, Mary, baby Jesus in a manger, a sheep, donkey and cow overlooked by an angel, shepherd and three wise men.

Prisoner Training Programme Helping to Tackle Drug Issues in Scotland

A training programme helping prisoners to tackle drug issues has won several awards.

The programme picked up Volunteer of the Year at our Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) Staff Awards for Excellence in October 2022. It also received two awards at the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) Public Health Directorate Excellence Awards 2022, for Volunteer of the Year and Innovation of the Year.