Category Archives: Scotland
£50,000 boost for student carers
(UKPA) 2 hours ago
Funding of £50,000 is being made available to support college students who have responsibility as carers.
Scotland’s Colleges, the body which represents and promotes the college sector, will receive the money from the Scottish Government to identify and help carers studying further education courses in 2012/13.
June 6th marks 1year since Tommy launched dementia campaign
Dementia awareness thinking about walking Glasgow to London next year to collect more life stories
Last year I launched my campaign with a walk round Scottish cities to raise awareness and collect life stories. I have been overwhelmed by the amazing response to this campaign ,I am thinking about walking from Glasgow to London next June to raise awareness and collect more life stories or even a relay of carers walking through towns and cities much like the Olympic torch handing over letters and life stories to the next town /city.
More than 800,000 Scots adults do not know how to get mental health help
Poll: The results showed more than 800,000 adults do not know where to get help
A new poll has showed younger people and men are less aware than their peers.
Of the 18-24 year olds surveyed, 45% said they would not know where to go and 24% of men said the same.
The poll was commissioned by the Scottish Association for Mental Health (SAMH) and carried out by YouGov.
It also shows 26% of people would wait more than a year before getting help for mental health concerns.
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