Turning Point Scotland has officially opened a new clinical facility at the charity’s established Holburn Street address to provide assertive outreach healthcare for individuals experiencing homelessness. The clinical room is a significant investment, built to the same specifications used in a GP surgery and will be staffed by a senior [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]