What we're reading - 17th September
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What we're reading
Challenge Poverty Week 2025 in CLD: Health Inequalities
Education Scotland’s CLD Team, working in partnership with SCDC, are delivering this webinar during Challenge Poverty Week with a focus on the role that Community Learning and Development (CLD) plays around health inequalities. You'll explore what this means for individuals and communities as well as how practice is developed to support the challenges faced.
SCVO Scottish Parliamentary election manifesto
SCVO has published its manifesto for May’s upcoming elections, setting out the important role the community and third sector play in our society. The focus is on delivering fairer funding, creating a partnership of equals between sectors, commissioning with communities, modernising regulation, securing volunteering, and amplifying the voice of the sector.
Ten things we can do in Scotland to support refugees
This article from the Scottish Refugee Council explores actions that be be taken to support refugees in the face of rising tension: changing the narrative, reforming and strengthening protections, and investing in community dialogue or some of the key steps. “But beneath the placards and headlines lies a deeper question: what kind of society do we wish to be?”
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