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Scotland's leading social care developer and provider- Turning Point Scotland > News & Views > 2023
  • 08/11/202329/08/2024
  • Alcohol and Other Drugs

Turning Point Scotland opens new North Lanarkshire Crisis Outreach service

Turning Point Scotland have opened the North Lanarkshire Crisis Outreach service in Airdrie to reduce drug-related harm and death. This week the new service began delivering support that will include rapid response to near-fatal overdose, which provides a short, focused period of support for individuals. Commissioned by North Lanarkshire Council, [...]

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  • 06/11/202329/08/2024
  • Learning Disability

Turning Point Scotland celebrates Positive Behaviour Support team one-year milestone

Turning Point Scotland’s Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Team has celebrated one year since it was established to improve the quality of life for people with learning disabilities. People with learning disabilities or complex needs can often find themselves in situations where they are unable to communicate a need or want. [...]

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  • 01/11/202329/08/2024
  • Learning Disability

Lead Practitioner from Turning Point Scotland wins coveted award

Kathleen (Kate) Kirkpatrick from Dumfries and Galloway was presented with Turning Point Scotland’s Wendy Spencer Award for going the extra mile and consistently exemplifying the organisational values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity. The award ceremony took place on Tuesday 24th October in Glasgow, as part of Turning Point Scotland’s [...]

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  • 27/10/202329/08/2024
  • News

Turning Point Scotland’s Transitional Strategy 2021 – 2023 comes to a close

As we are ready to launch our new strategy, let’s take a moment to reflect back on our achievements during our Transitional Strategy from 2021 – 2023. [...]

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  • 14/09/202329/08/2024
  • Position Statements

Turning Point Scotland is committed to employing people with lived experience

People with lived and living experience of homelessness, alcohol and other drug use, the justice system, mental ill health and learning disabilities have an enormous contribution to make to services offered by Turning Point Scotland. They do so whether they wish to share their lived experience or not. Turning Point [...]

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  • 11/09/202329/08/2024
  • Alcohol and Other Drugs

Response to the Lord Advocates statement on a safer consumption facility pilot in Glasgow

We welcome this long-awaited statement by the Lord Advocate, and agree with the position taken that it would not be in the public interest to prosecute anyone using a Safer Consumption Facility (SCF) for possession.   We hope this statement, alongside calls from the Scottish Drug Forum for greater urgency to this [...]

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  • 07/09/202305/11/2024
  • blogs

Language matters – reframing how we talk about homelessness

At Turning Point Scotland, we have led by example to engage and influence our sector in tackling stigmatising language associated with all of our areas of support in social care. But we realised that some of the language we used to describe our Homelessness services needed careful updating. At Turning [...]

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  • 31/08/202305/11/2024
  • Alcohol and Other Drugs

Drug law reform – welcome statements, but we need urgent action to save lives

Today, on International Overdose Awareness Day, the Home Affairs Committee (HAC) at the House of Commons has called for drug law reform and a public health approach to drug use. In July the Scottish Government published ‘A Caring, Compassionate and Human Rights Informed Drug Policy for Scotland’, calling for decriminalisation [...]

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  • 31/08/202329/08/2024
  • Alcohol and Other Drugs

Turning Point Scotland’s response to calls for a Safe Consumption Facilities pilot

At Turning Point Scotland we have been calling for drug law reform. The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 is outdated and prevents us from being able to do some of the evidenced-based work that we know will save lives. This includes establishing Safe Consumption Facilities in key areas impacted by [...]

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  • 22/08/202329/08/2024
  • Alcohol and Other Drugs

Turning Point Scotland’s statement on Drug Related Deaths statistics for 2022

Turning Point Scotland, Head of Alcohol and Other Drugs, Patricia Tracey: “We provide a variety of evidence-based services, including the Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Recovery Residential Stabilisation service. “This Turning Point Scotland service supports individuals with a primary focus of stabilising their alcohol and/or drug use. During this period of [...]

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