Consultation response: Third Sector Funding Principles
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CHEX responded to this Scottish Parliament pre-budget 2025-26 scrutiny call for views on third sector funding principles.
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Healthy Communities - meeting the shared challenge: understanding a community-led approach to health improvement
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This 2008 paper outlines a model for community-led health in Scotland which focuses on individual and community empowerment.
Read MoreConsultation response: Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020
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CHEX responded to this Scottish Government consultation in June 2024: Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020 - Accredited body fees and proposals for discounting in relation to the PVG Scheme.
Read MoreHealth inequalities in Scotland – Meeting Our Shared Challenge (Feb, 2024)
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In this CHEX Briefing, we set out actions we think can help eradicate health inequality in Scotland. The actions are based on learning from our work in this area, including from the wider community-led health sector.
Read MoreEducation Bill Provisions Response - SCDC response
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SCDC submitted a written response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on proposals for a new qualifications body and a new approach to inspection of Education in Scotland. This included elements of the proposed Education Bill, which ran from November to December 2023.
Read MoreJourney to the centre of the evidence!
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In this briefing, we set out how statutory organisations and funders can unravel their old ways of working with and thinking about evidence so that they can make better use of evidence from communities and third sector and community organisations.
Read MoreBriefing: The right foundations - building a just and sustainable country after coronavirus
/What if we applied the same principles behind our response to coronavirus to tackling health inequalities and climate change?
Read MoreLess uncertainly, more ambition for LOHO
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Following our case study of the work of Lorn and Oban Healthy Options in a previous edition of CHEX point we are pleased to report that information from their Chair Hugh McLean confirms that they are on a more secure funding footing.
Read MoreA chance for Champion Community-Led Health
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Fiona Cross, Director at Ripple shares with us the importance of taking every opportunity that comes your way.
Read More"Much more of a partnership"
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Active Communities’ involvement in Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership.
Read MoreDo you have the evidence to have influence? - Resource
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If we want to have influence over what happens in and to our communities, we need to engage with evidence.
Read MoreBriefing: Where the action is - Community-led health and climate justice
/In this CHEX briefing, we make the links between community-led health and climate action and draw your attention to a new Communities Call for Climate Action that we urge all community organisations to sign up to.
Read More“If it’s not fair it’s not right and something needs to be done” - LGBT Health and Wellbeing
/Elspeth Gracey, CHEX Development Manager, offers her reflections from the LGBT Health and Wellbeing’s AGM.
Read MoreBriefing: All you need to know about public health reform
/This briefing sets out the basics of public health and public health reform, highlighting that the process so far has put a strong emphasis on community and community-led approaches.
Read MoreBriefing: Social prescribing - Redefining health and social care
/Here we explore how community-led health organisations have a key role to play in the development of social prescribing, acting as a bridge between statutory services and community provision.
Read MoreBriefing: Words into Action - Using the Empowerment Act
/What can community planning, participation requests and community asset transfer do for community-led health?
Read More“It’s all about kindness” - Compassionate Inverclyde
/How many of us after hearing an inspirational talk actually go and do something to improve the lives of the people in the community we serve?
Read MoreOur response to Public Health Scotland consultation - summarised!
/Communities should be supported to be at the forefront of addressing the causes of health inequalities in Scotland.
Read MoreA 'rainbow' umbrella - LGBT Health and Wellbeing
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A reflection on where we are at in terms of the needs and rights of those of us whose sexuality and gender identity has in the past been deemed shameful and illegal but increasingly walk with pride and embrace the opportunity afforded by the equality of marriage legislation.
Read MoreUnfairly and avoidably unwell and dying younger"
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In this blog Elspeth Gracey, from the CHEX team, reflects on how we use language to describe Scotland’s biggest health challenge and given what we know about the statistics and research what difference will it make to what we should do?
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