New resources for staff, carers, volunteers and their families. Organisations from across Scotland have worked together to create a new platform to help health and social care workers and carers look after their physical and mental health.
Properties occupied by charities can now apply for the £10,000 Small Business Grant Scheme to help with pressures caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The extension of the scheme is expected to result in an additional £31 million being made available to more than 3,000 small properties occupied by charities - including day centres, workshops and halls.
From: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Health and Safety Executive, and The Rt Hon Alok Sharma MP. Note - This guidance may not yet apply in Scotland where arrangements may differ.
This webinar from Brookings lasts one hour forty-nine minutes. There are several issues discussed that have parallels for UK.
From the conversation web site. We don't know much about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but we are learning new things about it every day.
Highland Council has announced it is to begin a restricted grass cutting service across the region. Despite significant challenges in terms of staffing, the local authority is pleased it is in a position to deliver a limited service at this time.
DINGWALL, Dingwall & Highland Marts Ltd., (May, 5th) sold 26 prime cattle. Prime bullocks (14) averaged 203.9p and sold to 216.0p per kg and £1,360.95 gross.
The advice on how often people can venture outdoors is being changed from tomorrow (Monday, May 11), the First Minister has announced. From tomorrow, the advice will be that people can go outside more than once a day to exercise.
Issued today to all employers by HMRC. Dear customer, I'm writing to share the latest information about the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme with you, including updates to guidance and the online service based on your feedback, and how to avoid common mistakes that can lead to a wrong or delayed payment.
Further measures to help Scotland's response to outbreak. Emergency measures to protect people facing financial hardship and allow public services to operate effectively have been introduced to Parliament in response to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.
More harm than good? Government's Covid-19 Recovery Strategy will damage the ‘innovative delivery models' it seeks to support, warns ParcelHero. The UK Government’s new Covid-19 Recovery Strategy introduces new guidelines that will actually harm those retailers it praises for adapting to a new delivery model, warns the UK courier services expert ParcelHero The UK courier specialist ParcelHero has welcomed the UK Government’s new Covid-19 Recovery Strategy, which reveals its plans for rebuilding the economy while continuing to save lives.
Children and Young People's Commissioner Bruce Adamson has repeated his call for direct payments to Scotland's families as a survey commissioned by the Food Foundation reveals the extent of food insecurity across the UK. What has the Commissioner said about direct payments? The safest and most dignified way to support families is to give them a direct payment of £20 a week― so the Scottish Government should urgently introduce a national direct payment scheme.
Fraser of Allender Insitute - 11 May 2020. As policies start to diverge north and south of the border, debate regarding the role of different governments in providing financial support to individuals and households may also start to gather pace.
Highlands and Islands Labour MSP, David Stewart, has contacted Scotland's bank chiefs asking for their input to save businesses in the region who are facing unprecedented hardship, and possible collapse, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The MSP has been contacted by business owners appealing for help in getting Scotland’s banks to charge their commercial borrowers the Bank of England base rate of 0.1%.
Boris Johnson's changes to lockdown in England and plans to restart the economy have opened up differences with Scotland. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says her key approach remains the "stay at home" message, but she has given an indication of what might happen in her "Looking beyond lockdown" document.
Subsea7 are about to commence the launch of a pipeline bundle into Sinclair's Bay. This operation will take between 24 - 36 hours and will require Subsea 7 to open the Wester Bridge to allow towheads to pass under and out to sea.
More than 120 communities across the Highlands and Islands are among the first in Scotland to benefit from the Scottish Government's £350 million package of support to address the social and economic impacts of COVID-19. The £40 million Supporting Communities Fund, which forms part of the Scottish Government's support package, is being administered across the region by development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
The Bank has published its quarterly Monetary Policy Report alongside an interim Financial Stability Report. Together, they provide a scenario for the path of the UK economy in the light of Covid-19 and assess the financial system's resilience to that scenario.
Good afternoon. I'm joined today by Iain Livingstone, Chief Constable of Police Scotland and Professor Jason Leitch, National Clinical Director.
The Washington Post is tracking closely what is happening in USA. The US unemployment rate tripled to 14.7 percent as more than 20 million jobs vanished in April — a rate of loss not seen since the Great Depression nearly a century ago.
