Tag: Scotland

Boots UK partners with FareShare to tackle period poverty in Scotland

Stuart Mitchell

Boots UK has announced a new partnership with FareShare to support a Scottish project that offers sanitary products for women and girls on low incomes. Period poverty is a real issue in the UK. A 2018 survey by Young Scot and Scottish Government found that in the last year around one in four (26%) survey respondents at school, college or university had struggled to access sanitary products. Of those, 60% couldn’t access the product they needed, and nearly three quarters (71%) had to ask someone else for a tampon or…

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Scottish Government Launch Alcohol Framework 2018: Preventing Harm Which Tackles Alcohol Marketing

Stuart Mitchell

Curbs on the marketing of alcoholic drinks to protect children are included in new plans to tackle alcohol harm. The Scottish Government’s ‘Alcohol Framework 2018: Preventing Harm’, includes proposals to consult on alcohol marketing such as public spaces and online. Under the framework, the UK Government will be pressed to impose a 9 pm watershed for alcohol advertising on TV, and restrictions on advertising in cinemas are also proposed. Alcohol producers will be urged to put health information on labels, and the current minimum unit price of 50 pence will…

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Scotland leads the way in inclusive education

Stuart Mitchell

Scotland will become the first country in the world to have LGBTI inclusive education embedded in the curriculum, Deputy First Minister John Swinney has told parliament. All state schools will be supported to teach LGBTI equality and inclusion across different age groups and subjects, grouped under various themes. The themes will include LGBTI terminology and identities; tackling homophobia, biphobia and transphobia; prejudice in relation to the LGBTI community; and promoting awareness of the history of LGBTI equalities and movements. All 33 recommendations by the LGBTI Inclusive Education Working Group, created…

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Scotland Launches New Iniative to Tackle domestic abuse

Stuart Mitchell

A ground-breaking initiative to combat domestic abuse is to be expanded around the country to help maximise victims’ safety and hold offenders to account for their violence. £2.8 million will be available for local authorities to apply for support to roll out the Caledonian System within their area to enable more perpetrators to address their behaviour The Caledonian System is a specialist court-mandated programme working with male perpetrators, which also aims to improve the lives of women and children affected. The announcement was made by Justice Secretary Michael Matheson while…

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Charity renews calls for end to mountain hare culls on the last day of the open season

Stuart Mitchell

Leading animal protection charity OneKind has renewed its calls for an end to the mass killing of mountain hares in Scotland on the last day of the open season. Mountain hares are protected by a closed season which runs from tomorrow (1st March) until 31 July. Outside of this period, the animals are killed as part of large-scale culls to manage land for red grouse shooting and can also be shot freely for sport. In September last year, OneKind presented its 11,000-strong petition to the Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee…

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