An independent Fife charity that provides free expert advice and assistance fielded more than 1,200 enquiries during the first 12 weeks of Universal Credit, it has emerged.
Equality News Update: The Guardian: Watchdog supports end to delay in gender recognition decisions
Equality and Human Rights Commission at odds with women’s groups
Equality News Update: The Herald: NHS bosses accused of ‘racism’ over email warning staff about Gypsy/Travellers
HEALTH chiefs have been accused of racism after sending an email to staff advising them to avoid approaching or speaking to Gypsy/Travellers.
Equality News Update: The Courier: Universities to research integration of minority communities in Scotland
St Andrews and Dundee universities have been given funding to research how Muslims and Roma people have integrated into local communities.
Equality News Update: The National: Service launched to help young people report hate crimes
A CHARITY has launched a safe and anonymous way for young victims of hate crimes to report incidents.
Equality News Update: Third Force News: 25 calls to improve lives of children
Organisations across the children’s sector and beyond have joined Children in Scotland on a milestone anniversary to call for improvements to the lives of children and young people in Scotland.
Equality News Update: Evening Express: Police launch new campaign against human trafficking and sexual exploitation
The first ever campaign targeting the perpetrators of human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Scotland has been launched by police.
Equality News Update: insider: Number of women joining tech sector in Scotland ‘rises by more than a third’
Skills Development Scotland announces the findings on Ada Lovelace Day - but adds more still has to be done to continue to promote gender equality
Call for proposals: Hard Up Communities in Fife – Welfare Reform and Equality
Fife Centre for Equalities is calling for proposals for a project to carry out investigative research to better understand the barriers experienced by communities of protected characteristics that are affected by poverty.
Equality News Update: Third Force News: Stores turn down lights and music to welcome autistic shoppers
A new National Autistic Society campaign is educating shops about how to make their stores less stressful for people with autism.
Equality News Update: Evening Express: Special rooms opened for families dealing with baby death
Bereaved parents have led a fundraising drive to create new maternity unit family rooms to help people coping with the death of a baby.
Equality News Update: Fife Today: Nurses help to improve NHS Fife’s dementia care
A two-day, bespoke training course designed by two senior charge nurses in Fife has won a prestigious award.
Equality News Update: The Courier: Dunfermline pupils help with national suffragette campaign
Fife pupils are helping tell the largely unknown tale of the Suffragette movement in Scotland.
Equality News Update: BBC News: ‘Urgent’ need to tackle racism in schools
There is an "urgent" need for anti-racist education in Scotland's schools, according to a teaching union.
Equality News Update: The Herald: Scotland could extend civil partnerships to opposite-sex couples or get rid of them completely
CIVIL partnerships could be extended to mixed-sex couples or phased out completely, depending on the outcome of a Scottish Government consultation.