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  • 04/04/202504/04/2025
  • News

New ‘Upside’ Prison Throughcare Service Launches Across Scotland

Turning Point Scotland are delighted to be partnered with seven other charities- Access to Industry, Action for Children, Apex Scotland, Barnardo’s, Circle, Families Outside, and Sacro to deliver Upside which offers consistent, trauma-informed and person-centred support across the country. Upside focuses on reducing reoffending, supporting reintegration, and improving outcomes for [...]

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  • 31/03/202531/03/2025
  • Homelessness and Prevention

Aberdeen Gateway Support achieves goal, shortening accommodation based support time by over 80%

Turning Point Scotland’s Aberdeen Gateway Support service closed today having successfully achieved its purpose, shortening the time people at risk of homelessness are in accommodation based support by over 80%. In the first year after the service opened in April 2023, Turning Point Scotland has reduced the time people they [...]

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  • 18/03/202518/03/2025
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Glasgow Alcohol and other Drugs Service celebrates 30 year milestone

In 1994, Turning Point Scotland Patron, Princess Diana attended the opening of the service which was as a radical and innovative response to prevent drug deaths. Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Crisis Service offers integrated health and social care which provides low threshold, direct access services for people experiencing a crisis [...]

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  • 20/02/202520/02/2025
  • Alcohol and Other Drugs

Turning Point Scotland’s People’s Panel Response

Turning Point Scotland recently took part in the People’s Panel on reducing drug harm and deaths in Scotland. The panel brought together a small, representative sample of the population to learn about the current state of drug related harms and deaths, and to make a series of recommendations on what [...]

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  • 04/02/202504/02/2025
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Why is a pilot Safer Drugs Consumption Facility (SDCF) being opened in Glasgow, and how is it intended to reduce harm from problem drug use in the area?

Turning Point Scotland submitted a response to Scottish Affairs Committee (SAC) inquiry on the Safer Consumption Pilot Facility. Some key points of the response included: To read in more detail about our response, click the link below. [...]

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  • 13/01/2025
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UK’s First Safer Consumption Facility is a huge step forward but we still have far to go. By Head of Alcohol and other Drugs, Patricia Tracey.

The opening of the Thistle – the UK’s first official Safer Consumption Facility (SCF)– in Glasgow today is a huge step forward.  I’m taking a moment today to acknowledge how far we’ve come, but also to think about how far there still is to go. I want to start by [...]

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  • 19/11/202428/11/2024
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Letter to Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, Neil Gray, regarding National Insurance increase

Our Chief Executive Neil Richardson has written to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, expressing the significant consequences an increase in Employer National Insurance contributions in the UK Budget, will have on our organisation. Read Neil’s letter by clicking the link below [...]

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  • 04/11/202404/11/2024
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Turning Point Scotland’s Response to the Autumn Budget Announcement

Rachel Reeves’ recent announcement of her Autumn Budget has significant impacts on social care in Scotland. Firstly, the rise in the Real Living Wage—higher than anticipated—carries important cost implications for Turning Point Scotland and other social care providers across the country. However, we stand by the principle of raising lower-wage [...]

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  • 25/10/202404/11/2024
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Turning Point Scotland launch the 2023-2024 Annual Report

Our Annual Report 2023-2024 explores a year of organisational development, including the implementation of Turning Point Scotland’s new strategy, staff success across the country, an overview of justice services and innovative prevention approaches.  Despite challenges in the social sector Turning Point Scotland continues to be a leader that continues to [...]

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  • 26/09/202426/09/2024
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VIDEO: Turning Point Scotland’s commitment to Citizenship

Turning Point Scotland was first introduced to Citizenship more than nine years ago. Citizenship is an innovative model for community integration and social inclusion developed by the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH). The ideas behind the approach originated by way of Michael Rowe (co-director of PRCH) and [...]

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