Guest contributor – Alan McCaskell, Postgraduate researcher in Social Policy at the University of Stirling The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause turmoil and is set to have...
Author: Shelter Scotland
Volunteers’ Week Blog 2021
Volunteering from Home: Connection, Support and Innovation This Volunteers’ Week, 1-7 June, we are celebrating the determination, adaptability and patience of Shelter Scotland volunteers in...
PARTY MANIFESTOS PUT SOCIAL HOUSING AT HEART OF OUR RECOVERY
ANOTHER SHELTER SCOTLAND CAMPAIGN WIN With polls closed and election results coming over the next 36 hours, now is as good a time as any to take stock and reflect on how, with our...
Your housing or your health? Your health or your housing?
Scottish Government’s announcement last Thursday was a very welcome one. A £5 million “recovery and rehabilitation fund” to provide additional residential rehabilitation capacity and to...
Do we risk diluting the rights of homeless people?
Last week’s publication of the report and recommendations from the Crisis-led Scotland Prevention Review Group (PRG) puts the need for every part of the public sector to take...