May this Christmas bring joy and love to your heart and soul, and may you start the New Year on a beautiful note. Everyone from Positive Steps wishes you the best Christmas and a safe and happy New Year. ...
Our CLD department took part in an information session today held by Volunteer Centre Dundee. The session was to celebrate, recognise and reward the achievements of young people volunteering through the Saltire Awards....
Our Community Learning and Development team were privileged to be part of a lecture titled ‘Creating Wellbeing – What is needed to transform Scottish society so that all citizens are able to thrive?’, delivered by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP. The First Minister highlighted the integration...
After a recent visit from staff and the C.E.O from Crisis. They were very happy with their findings and produced this report about our services on their Crisis Website. It highlights how well, we are supporting the most vulnerable people in Dundee...
This guidance is meant to help staff dealing with unsuccessful applicants for Universal Credit who are threatening to self-harm or take their own life. But what this is doing is putting people in real danger because if people are assessed wrongly and they are already...
MSPs have formally protested against changes to the UK benefits system, marking the first time the Scottish Parliament has refused Westminster legislative consent. One of the main proposals in the UK government’s Welfare Reform Bill is to replace Disability Living Allowance with a ‘Personal Independence Payment...
What is Health Inequalities and how does it impact on people in our local communities. How can we challenge this? and Why should we care?...
Our community development team were pleased to be present at the recent ‘Conversation Café’ with Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport, Shona Robison MSP. This was the formal launch of the Scottish Government’s Healthier Scotland National Conversation and gave us the opportunity to engage...
We have been hearing a lot about poverty and how it has been affecting people in Society. There was a study that took placed called “The study by the Campaign to End Child Poverty” it showed that Dundee had the second highest rate in Scotland...