If you are due to receive a UC, JSA, PIP, ADP payment on the 25th or 26th, you’ll receive it today.
If you are due to receive one on the 1st or 2nd of January, you’ll get it on Hogmanay (New Year’s Eve).
Merry Christmas from all at Welfare Scotland 🎄
Happy to join nearly 300 human rights and equality organisations in restating our support for the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (European Convention on Human Rights) on its 75th anniversary.
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/almost...
We’re joining the Big Issue to urge the government to set child poverty targets. Read our open letter at https://www.bigissue.com/news/politics/big-issue-leads-call-government-targets-child-poverty-strategy/
Today we join the @bigissue.com and 65 other signatories in an open letter urging the UK Govt to set child poverty targets in the upcoming child poverty strategy.
The Guardian covered it here - www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
You can read the full letter at www.bigissue.com/news/politic...
Happy to confirm that ScotGovt have replied to confirm they have no intention to change Scots law to mirror UK Govt plans to give powers to police in E&W to prohibit repeated protests. #HumanRights #Protest #Scotland
🎤 Nae Borders is BACK!
⭐ Join us next month for an unmissable night with the best in the comedy circuit at @gleeclubglasgow.bsky.social !
Our outstanding comedians are standing up in solidarity with those seeking safety in Scotland.
Don't miss out!
🎟️Tickets on sale now: booking.glee.co.uk/22899
🔍 MALG opens search for new CEO!
This is more than a job. It’s a chance to lead a respected, purpose-led organisation at the heart of the UK’s debt and money advice sector.
🕓 4 days/week 💻 Remote & flexible
📅 Apply by: 14 October
malg.org.uk/money-advice...
We're fundraising for @samaritans.bsky.social and I'm getting some new Halloween face art every £50 raised!
www.twitch.tv/ayeforscotland
Audio version of letter is linked on the second post. The link to the audio version is: https://tinyurl.com/cabsecjustice
Audio version of letter is linked on the second post. The link to the audio version is: https://tinyurl.com/cabsecjustice
Audio version of letter is linked on the second post. The link to the audio version is: https://tinyurl.com/cabsecjustice
This morning I have written to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice @angelaconstance.bsky.social MSP to register our concern over plans by the Home Secretary to provide new protest policing powers to police forces in England and Wales and to ascertain if the CabSec intends to mirror this in Scots law.
15 UK banks ordered to snoop on state pensioners and other benefit claimants under DWP crackdown.
No court order needed. No right of appeal.
Banks will pass cost to other customers.
Those accused of fraud won't get legal advice. The making of another Post Office type scandal.
When it comes to intimidating racist protests including outside our homes or place of worship, Black and Asian people are supposed to just accept it and the government saying “we hear you” and “it is right to protest this” and “I love flags me”. No thought of “cumulative impact” for us!
Great to see this new report from Scottish Commission on Social Security on accessibility and the Scottish social security system.
A blue and purple square graphic with text in black that reads "When any pupil goes to school, they should be able to do so safely, have appropriate toilets and changing rooms they can use, and be listened to and have their identity respected. Changes made yesterday by the Scottish Government to their guidance on supporting transgender pupils in schools will make this much harder for trans children and young people than it was before. " The Equality Network and Scottish Trans logos are in white below the text.
A blue and purple square graphic with text in black that reads "If the law means that trans pupils really must be treated in a way that we hope that everyone can see is not in their best interests, then the way forward is clear – we must change the law. It is not good enough to say that this is just the way it has to be." The Equality Network and Scottish Trans logos are in white below the text.
When any pupil goes to school, they should be able to do so safely, have appropriate toilets and changing rooms they can use, and be listened to and have their identity respected.
When I was in hospital a few years ago I had a nurse from Philippines, and was a number of support staff all vital to my care from different parts of the world. They saved my life. Without immigration our NHS would not be as strong!
Scotland thrives because people choose to make it their home. Migration isn’t something to fear, it’s the lifeblood of our communities and keeps our cities alive, our towns dynamic, and our society forward-looking. It’s one of Scotland’s greatest assets and we should be celebrating that!
Today, we have launched our manifesto for housing ahead of the 2026 Scottish parliamentary elections, which sets out 5 key priorties that our members want the Scottish government to deliver to tackle the housing emergency and put the sector on a firm footing for the future:
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Scrapping the two-child limit on benefits would be the most targeted and cost-effective way for the Government to meet its aim of reducing child poverty.
White text on purple background reads: "We all deserve to be safe and feel like we belong, no matter where we come from or how we arrived."
We stand in solidarity with people seeking safety and against acts of violence and intimidation taking place in parts of the country.
Times are tough but people fleeing war and persecution are not to blame for Scotland’s problems. Everyone deserves to be safe and feel like they belong.
☀️ On these warmer days, please check on your neighbours especially if they are older, disabled or chronically ill. This heat isn’t just unbearable but can very quickly become deadly.
- Keep windows closed and curtains drawn on the warmest days.
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- Open windows at night but close at breakfast time before the heat starts to rise again.
- A damp towel can help cool you down at warmest point of the day.
- Drink more water and make sure to eat.
- Keep dogs in the shade or indoors. Provide access to fresh clean water.
☀️ On these warmer days, please check on your neighbours especially if they are older, disabled or chronically ill. This heat isn’t just unbearable but can very quickly become deadly.
- Keep windows closed and curtains drawn on the warmest days.
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The Radio Teleswitch switch-off is happening at the end of June 2025. It controls the heating of around 120,000 households in Scotland.
You need your meter changed or risk losing heat or having your bills spiralling, contact your supplier now.
Watch our video to find out more.
The Labour Govt is moving to abolish the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal. A tribunal where local authorities lose 96% of the time.
www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/governm...
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