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by Hannah Dickson, Development Manager As a team we’ve been thinking about the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has been having on community safety, on the ability of community safety partnerships to operate under current conditions and what we can do to support community safety partners during this time. The emergency legislation from the UK...
by Mariah Kelly, Business Support Assistant For many people, social distancing and self-isolation will mean spending increased periods of time with perpetrators of abuse. Victims/survivors may also experience increased anxiety and threat at the prospect of an abuser knowing that they are home. To support the safety and wellbeing of women and children during the...
by David Barbour, SCSN Communications Officer The Covid 19 pandemic has implications across all policy areas and alcohol and drugs is no different. There are numerous issues that have and will arise for those working with people with alcohol or drug issues, on people who use alcohol and drugs (whether they already use alcohol and...
One of our programmes of work disrupted by the COVID 19 crisis is Measuring what Matters. While day to day activity on this programme has had to pause, we can share some key messages and learning so far. Last year SCSN worked with Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS) to bring together practitioners from across the sector...
Hannah Dickson, our current National Development Officer, has moved into a new role from 1st April 2020. I’m pleased to say that Hannah is our new Development Manager and will be leading the creation of our newly enhanced development team – hopefully recruiting in June. I hope you will join me in sending congratulations and...
by Lorraine Gillies, SCSN Chief Officer I’m 2 weeks in to semi self isolation. My husband is immune suppressed so I’m trying not to go out. That means we are both working from home. Add a 16 year old, twa dugs and one cat into the mix and it’s an interesting situation. We dont have...
We’ve decided to bring forward our next Question of the Month and base it on all of our changed circumstances during the Covid 19 pandemic. Many of us are now being forced to work from home, though at SCSN home and agile working has been our policy for over two years now. Whilst it’s good...
The rapid outbreak of COVID-19 has presented an alarming health crisis that the world is grappling with. In addition to the human impact, there is also a significant commercial one felt globally. While we have already seen both UK and Scottish Governments introduce a raft of relief for businesses, as viruses know no borders, the...
The National Trading Standards (NTS) Scams Team has produced some helpful materials to help promote scams awareness around coronavirus (COVID-19) scams at this difficult time. Today the team has released a press release around criminals exploiting fears about coronavirus to prey on members of the public, particularly older and vulnerable people who are isolated from...
There have been some wonderful reports of community support and kindness in recent weeks in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. At SCSN we are aware that, as well as these uplifting stories and community response, there are also a number of risks in relation to community safety that a situation like this can create. This...