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Getting Through the Pandemic Together at Wallacewell

Glasgow City Health and Social Care (HSCP) staff at Wallacewell Children’s House have been going above and beyond since the beginning of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic to ensure that all children and young people continue to thrive and feel at home.

North West Locality Engagement Forum Meeting Papers - 1 June 2021

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Social Work Professional Support Service Launched

A free peer support service has been launched for social workers across Scotland, as practitioners across the country continue to feel pressures working during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Occupational Therapy Newsletter - July 2021

A new edition of our HSCP’s Occupational Therapy (OT) Newsletter is available for your information, to keep you up to date with some of what’s happening in Occupational Therapy in Glasgow. As you’ll see from the summary of work in progress, the OT Review Group remains committed to improving OT Services for the people of Glasgow. 
 

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Glasgow's Caring Community - Carers Strategy Implementation Update 2021

Last month, from 7 - 13 June 2021, we celebrated national Carers Week to highlight the importance of unpaid carers by ‘Making Caring Visible and Valued’. To mark Carers Week, Glasgow Local Carers Centres organised a calendar of events for all unpaid carers to attend, from cream teas to fancy hat garden parties. 

Partnership Matters Briefing - July 2021

Our July edition features a message from our Chief Officer, Susanne Millar; we spotlight the vital work of unpaid carers in our city; read about the Helping Hands Initiative; read about how the staff at Wallacewell Children's House have been going above and beyond during the pandemic; and we look at our newly-launched HSCP Demographics Profile for 2021. Also in this edition is a Senior Management Team video message and lots of other news, along with dates of meetings and events.

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Help for New Mums - New Telephone Breastfeeding Support Service

A new pilot telephone breastfeeding peer support service is being offered to support pregnant and new mums living in Glasgow City.  

New Nature Reserve Opens Near Woodside Health and Care Centre

Celebrations took place on the afternoon of Saturday, 31 July to mark the opening of the Claypits Glasgow Inner City Reserve at Hamiltonhill in the north of the city.  Local residents, community groups and politicians turned up for a fun-filled day.

The Claypits is a 6.7-hectare green space, home to an array of plants, trees and wildlife including roe deer, peregrine falcons, whitethroat warblers and a host of waterfowl.

EQIA GCHSCP Strategic Plan 2023_26 Engagement

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Glasgow Takes Part in Research into Creation of Drug Checking Services

Glasgow's Alcohol and Drug Partnership is working with the University of Stirling to explore how drug checking services could be developed to reduce harms in Scotland.

The city is one of three taking part in the research led by Professor Tessa Parkes. Addictions specialists in Dundee and Aberdeen are also contributing to the study, which received funding from the Drugs Deaths Taskforce - a body established by the Scottish Government in 2019 to prevent drug deaths in Scotland.