This page contains links to all SCSN featured blogs, written both by our staff members and partner organisations. Blog posts appear in chronological order from most recent to least recent.
2022
- Wellbeing makes the world go round! – David Barbour, SCSN Communications Officer
- Feeling the Pinch? Cost of Living Crisis – Lorraine Gillies, SCSN Chief Officer
- Dangerous Dogs in Scotland – Dawn Exley
- SCSN 4 Day Week: Blog 3/3 – Dave Shea, SCSN Senior National Development Officer
- SCSN 4 Day Week: Blog 2/3 – Dave Shea, SCSN Senior National Development Officer
2021
- Covid 19 & Omicron: Let’s look after ourselves & each other – SCSN
- Light Up the Way: Transforming Power with Community Climate Action – Joana Avie-Lorie, Scottish Community Climate Action Network
- Climate Anxiety & Community Safety – David Barbour, SCSN Communications Officer
- SCSN 4 Day Week: Pilot Begins! – Dave Shea, Senior National Development Officer
- Bridging the Void: Making Communities Safer – Professor Fergus McNeill, Distant Voices
- Adopting a trauma informed approach in Scotland – guest article, Laura James, Improvement Service
- Poverty & Scotland’s Drug Deaths Crisis – guest article, Austin Smith, Policy Officer, Scottish Drugs Forum
- Poverty & Community Safety – guest article, Niven Rennie, Director, VRU Scotland
- Community Safety & the parallel world of cyber safety – Dawn Exley
- SCSN Blog: Scottish Youth Parliament Manifesto
- Guest Blog: Pre-trial detention of children in young offenders institutions and prisons – Claire Lightowler and Fiona Dyer Children & Young People’s Centre for Justice
- #SheWasJustWalkingHome – Dawn Exley
- Thinking about LGBT experiences of community safety – David Barbour
2020
- A Public Health Approach to reducing crime – Guest blog by Niven Rennie, Director, Violence Reduction Unit
- Do our attitudes to crime and punishment promote community safety? – David Barbour
- The approaching storm and why we must protect youth work – Dawn Exley
- Let’s take a fresh look at life’s dilemmas – Guest blog, Nicola Hanssen, Roar Connections for Life
- Implications for Road Safety from Covid 19 – Hannah Dickson
- Covid 19 and the role of evidence in policymaking – Mariah Kelly
- Kindness After the Storm (Covid 19) – Dawn Exley
- Covid 19 and the LGBT Community – David Barbour
- Was there ever a better time for partnership working – Lorraine Gillies
- Coronavirus legislation and human rights – Hannah Dickson
- Covid 19 and domestic abuse – Mariah Kelly
- Covid 19, alcohol and drugs – David Barbour
- Why the first lockdown email I sent to my staff was on self care – Lorraine Gillies
- Thinking about digital policing – Dawn Exley
- No limits for Springburn Academy’s young people – Wise Group
2019
- Community Planning and Community Safety – Guest article, Alasdair Mathers
- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Scotland – Carlene McAvoy, RoSPA
- Are you measuring what matters? – Nicola Swan, Evaluation Support Scotland
- SCSN in Luxembourg – Lorraine Gillies
- Czeching out Prague with Elevate PSP – David Barbour
- Every other meeting… – Lorraine Gillies
- Thinking about the links between Public Health and Community Safety – David Barbour
- Lived experience and community safety: why it matters – Dawn Exley
- SCSN on tour: What would a Welsh Community Safety Network look like? – Lorraine Gillies
- Turning the tide: working together to prevent drowning in Scotland – Carlene McAvoy, RoSPA
- Thinking about trauma, suicide and health inequalities on LGBT History Month – David Barbour
- Thoughts so far (community safety narrative) – Tricia Spacey, Fife Council/SCSN/BSCP
2018