Image 5.1: Volunteer Edinburgh’s Community Taskforce volunteers Note: Volunteers supported people impacted by COVID-19 with practical tasks such as shopping delivery and dog walking 5.1 Introduction Volunteering in Scotland, as in all nations of the UK, has been significantly impacted by COVID-19. As restrictions and subsequent lockdowns were implemented (see Image 5.1 ), organisations and individuals came together at pace to develop solutions and support those most in need. A new ‘can do’ attitude brushed aside a lot of the bureaucratic and
89 Scotland FOUR Scotland Emma’s story Emma was born in 1996 and, when this book was written in 2003, she was seven-years-old. She lives with her mother (Anne), her father (Mike) and older sister (Julia) in a village in the north of Scotland with a population of just under 1,000. She currently attends the local primary school where she is in her third year of compulsory schooling. Emma’s care and education, from birth to seven years Mike works at the local fishery, which can involve long hours, Anne works full time at the village library. They are not well off
391Erica Wimbush et al Evidence & Policy • vol 1 • no 3 • 2005 • 391-407 pr ac tic e© The Policy Press • 2005 • ISSN 1744 2648 Key words public health • evaluation • Scotland Evidence, policy and practice: developing collaborative approaches in Scotland Erica Wimbush, Helen Harper, Daniel Wight, Laurence Gruer, Matthew Lowther, Shirley Fraser and Jacki Gordon English While many of the drivers for evidence-based policy and practice are UK wide, there are some distinctive features of the policy and practice contexts in Scotland that have shaped the way in which
49 3 Scottish Gang Literature Chapter 2 outlined gang research in three main ways. These were regarding context, structure and literature. Yet, while this discussion was placed in the wider US, European and, finally, UK context, Scottish gang literature was excluded. This is because I did not want to present the complex picture of what has been happening in Scottish gang literature without first setting the background in which it can be understood. This is particularly important given that this book is not just for the established academic. Yet, this
5 Journal of Poverty and Social Justice • vol 23 • no 1 • 5–16 • © Policy Press 2015 • #JPSJ Print ISSN 1759 8273 • Online ISSN 1759 8281 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/175982715X14231434073599 article The 2014 Scottish independence debate: questions of social welfare and social justice Gerry Mooney, gerry.mooney@open.ac.uk The Open University in Scotland, UK Gill Scott, j.m.scott@gcal.ac.uk Glasgow Caledonian University, UK This paper aims to foreground some of the main ways in which issues of social welfare and social policy came to occupy centre stage in the
The Scottish criminal justice system has a history of casting itself apart as more progressive and distinct from England and Wales ( McAra, 2005 , 2008 ; Mooney et al, 2015 ). However, as Brangan (2019) found, while Scottish penal reform in the 1990s had a civilising and progressive character (in comparison to England and Wales and other punitive Western democracies, notably the US), Scotland’s claims to penal superiority may be misplaced. Scottish policing has also set itself apart from its counterparts south of the border through claims to a progressive
59 FOUR A comparison: criminalised women in Scotland Michele Burman, Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor Introduction Between 1995 and 2002, a total of 11 women killed themselves in what was then Scotland’s only prison for women, HMP and YOI Cornton Vale. The deaths, and the seeming frequency with which one followed another (seven women died within a 30-month period between 1995 and 1997; and two women died in one week in 2001), sent shock waves through the Scottish criminal justice system and wider Scottish society. Although the subsequent fatal accident
I am a gardener who happens to have dementia. I live on the Black Isle of Scotland, on a remote croft 44 km from the nearest city, Inverness. I moved to the Black Isle for health reasons around 2002, which coincided with the time of receiving a diagnosis of dementia. I rented properties in the first instance and then met someone interested in gardening and got the ‘gardening bug’. I went on to buy a property with 1.7 hectares of land. I began to grow vegetables – amazing, lovely produce – and ate what I grew. In my early days living on the Black Isle, I had
Changing Scotland uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey to improve our knowledge and understanding of the impact of devolution on the lives of people in Scotland. It is the first time that BHPS data has been used in this way.
The book provides a detailed examination of social, economic, demographic and political differences, especially those involving dynamic behaviour such as residential mobility, unemployment duration, job mobility, income inequality, poverty, health and deprivation, national identity, family structure and other aspects of individual’s lives as they change over time. This data provides a ‘baseline’ for policy formulation and for analysing the impact of subsequent differential developments arising out of devolution.
The book is also an invaluable resource for establishing pre-existing differences between England and Scotland and evaluating the impact of policy initiatives by the Scottish Executive.
21 TWO Seeing knowledge in mental health in Scotland Jennifer Smith-Merry Introduction The research I present here uses the embodied–inscribed–enacted framework to interrogate data gathered from a large qualitative research project that has sought to understand the way that knowledge functions in relation to Scottish mental health policy. This formed the first part of the work conducted by the Scottish health team under the KNOWandPOL project, which aimed to understand the different dimensions of knowledge use in relation to policymaking across Europe
