Date	Theme	Activity/Event	Notes
Monday 6th October	Social Security	Young People & Families One Stop Shop The Hive, Alloa 10am – 12pm	Marketplace-style drop-in to advise young people and their families on benefits and educational & employment support pathways.   Young people and families can drop-in with no need to book a space.   If your organisation would like to have a stall at this event, please contact Rachel MacLean – rmaclean@clacks.gov.uk
Tuesday 7th October	Jobs	Stirling & Clackmannanshire Employer Engagement Forum Paton Suite, Alloa Business Centre 9.30am – 12pm	This Employer Engagement Forum event has been planned to align with Challenge Poverty Week. Presentations and discussions will centre on implementing fair work practices and better supporting staff.   Invitation-only event.
Wednesday 8th October	Life’s Essentials	Clackmannanshire Knowledge Exchange Alloa Town Hall 9.30am – 12.30pm	Marketplace-style networking event with four break-out workshops for practitioners providing support services in the community, aiming to raise awareness of key services and supports and encourage joined-up working.   Bookings for stalls, networking tickets and workshops can be made on Eventbrite.
Thursday 9th October	Communities & Volunteering	Roundtable: Violence Against Women & Girls and Poverty – Exploring Intersections Online (Teams) 10am – 11.30am	Roundtable discussion for professionals in Clackmannanshire and Glasgow, themed around the intersections between violence against women & girls and poverty, hosted jointly between Clackmannanshire Council and Financially Included.   Invitation-only event.
		‘Community Visions’ Art Exhibition Launch Spiers Centre, Alloa 2pm – 3pm	Launch event for a week-long exhibition of art pieces created by community groups, themed around aspirational visions of a better Clackmannanshire. A one-week long exhibition will follow, which is open to the public until 17th October.   Bookings for the launch event can be made on Eventbrite.
Friday 10th October	Climate	Climate-themed outdoor activities for young people and families running throughout the week at Gartmorn Dam and integrated into October Holiday activity programme.	For enquiries, please contact Julie Haslam jhaslam@clacks.gov.uk

 

Download the Challenge Poverty Week Timetable.

 

Alcohol Awareness Week is dedicated to raising awareness, advocating for change, and more.

Organised by Alcohol Change UK, this year’s theme is Alcohol and Work.

To support this campaign, Alcohol Change UK has created a digital resource that includes information sheets, posters, social media materials, and much more! Whether you’re interested in launching a social media campaign, hosting an event or workshop, or simply initiating a conversation about the connection between alcohol and work, click the link below for plenty of ideas to help you get started.

For further information, please see following leaflet: Alcohol Awareness Week 2025

The National Suicide Prevention campaign launched on Wednesday 16^th April 2025. The aim of this campaign is to start Scotland’s biggest conversation about suicide.

Here is a link to the home page of the website, and a link to the professional’s page, where you are able to order free assets (both digital and ready to print). There is already a lot of content on the website, including information about supports for yourself or someone you are worried about, but this will continue to be added to in the coming weeks and months.

• Home – Suicide Prevention Scotland
• I work in suicide prevention – Suicide Prevention Scotland

In addition to that, all of the related films are available to view on the Suicide Prevention Scotland YouTube channel, linked below. I hope you’ll agree that these are very personal and very powerful conversations.

• Suicide Prevention Scotland’s YouTube Channel

Please have a look and share with your networks.

* To download, click the three dots button.

Scottish Government launched a new child protection resource on 20th February called Keeping children safe in Scotland.

‘Keeping children safe in Scotland’ is an online resource that provides guides to child protection processes for children, young people and families who may become involved in the child protection process either directly as a child or parent/carer or as a member of the wider family, and for those who may be supporting a child.

More details on this resource can be found in the launch briefing paper.

Sextortion in Scotland | Crimestoppers

What is Fearless? Fearless enables young people to pass on information about crime 100% anonymously. This Crimestoppers campaign highlights sextortion and what adults, young people and children should do if they are a victim.

We would be delighted if you were able to attend our 16 Days of Activism Launch Event at Alloa Town Hall on Monday 25 November to kick off Forth Valley’s 16 days campaign.

The 16 Days of Activism is an annual international campaign to end Gender-Based Violence. Clackmannanshire’s Violence Against Women and Girls Partnership has the exciting opportunity of hosting the 16 Days of Activism launch event for Forth Valley this year.

The 16 Days of Activism Forth Valley Working Group has met monthly to plan activity for the duration of the campaign. The working group consists of support organisations, emergency services, council services and more. This year’s theme is ‘Imagine a Scotland without Gender-Based Violence’. In Forth Valley, we are adopting an arts focus to make the event more community friendly.

Our launch event will focus on community, lived experience and the concept of youth safety and happiness. In attendance, will be White Ribbon alongside other guest speakers who aim to engage our councillors and the community to sign the pledge to never commit gender-based violence. The launch event will be concluded with an interactive workshop created and taken by our school pupils and will end with a youth led march out of the Town Hall to complete a short circuit in Alloa town centre. All attendees and members of the public are welcome to join us on the march at 12pm.

To secure your space, please register via the Eventbrite link: Clackmannanshire’s 16 Days of Activism Launch Event

We hope to see you there.

Invitation to Forth Valley’s 16 Days of Activism Launch Event

Forth Valley, 16 Days Programme of Events – 2024

FINAL Schedule of events Challenge Poverty Week 2024

 

Rent Review Survey Poster Oct sessions

Challenge Poverty Housing support Poster

The Scottish Government’s Serious Organised Crime Taskforce has developed guidance for practitioners around criminal exploitation as part of the wider Serious Organised Crime Strategy.

The guidance aims to support practitioners to divert adults, children and young people who are at high risk of criminal exploitation. 

Criminal exploitation: practitioner guidance

 

Each and Every Child is an initiative that is focussed on using robustly tested framing techniques to create a new narrative around care, one that shifts public attitudes and increases understanding about care experience and the care system.

Based on FrameWorks UK research into how the Scottish public thinks about care experience, and how care experience is discussed by media, individuals and organisations across Scotland, eight framing recommendations were produced to change how we speak about care experience.

The recommendations have been tested to tackle stigma and discrimination, whilst building support for improvements to the care system to help Keep The Promise.

Events

Additional Session: Supporting People to Tell Stories About Care Experience

This is a highly focused and practical session for anyone involved telling stories about care experience – in particular, as a spokesperson or when supporting others.

It will explore:

• The importance of staying on-message, including the perils of myth-busting and crisis language
• Sharing stories from first-hand experience, bringing in context and holding systems to account
• Using framing in interviews; staying in control and telling the story you want to tell AND the spot, position and move technique

Tuesday 18 April – 1400 to 1600

 

Introduction to Framing and Framing Care Experience

Our introductory session will introduce Each and Every Child and the evidence-based framing recommendations. Content will include:

• What is framing, and what does it mean for how we tell our stories?
• How can we change public thinking about care experience?
• What are issue frames, values, metaphor and context and how can these be used to tell a new story?
• What are mental shortcuts? What triggers them – and what are the consequences for communicators?

Tuesday 23 May – 1400 to 1600

 

Additional Session: Framing Care Experience Creatively and Consistently

Please note: you will need to have completed the Introduction to Framing and Framing Care Experience session before you can attend an additional session.

The session will look at how you can bring frames to life creatively by considering bespoke exercises, examples and practice that you can use. This will also be an opportunity to share practice and ideas of how you could use and flex the framing recommendations within your work.

Tuesday 09 May – 1400 to 1600

 

Monthly Framing Cafe

Join our monthly Framing Café – providing an informal opportunity to discuss framing and carry on the learning from our Introduction to Framing session.

The Framing Café aims to:

• Provide a confidential space to celebrate framing wins and talk through challenges – and meet others who are working to frame care experience
• Share experiences and examples of embedding the framing recommendations
• Hear from organisations who have been working on using the framing recommendations specific pieces of work
• Continue to develop your skills and confidence using the framing recommendations and techniques
• Start to build a Community of Framers across the country

Thursday 04 May – 1230 to 1330 

Thursday 01 June – 1230 to 1330 

Thursday 06 July – 1230 to 1330 

 

2 podcasts have also been produce by Each and Every Child and can be listened to via the links below.

Episode 1: In this first episode we are joined by two members of our voices of Experience reference group: Roseanna Campbell, Participation Officer Care Experienced Young People at Edinburgh City Council, and James Docherty, whose work includes supporting the Violence Reduction Unit. They are joined by host Claire O’Hara, Programme Director at Each and Every Child, to discuss why we frame our stories what the impact can be if people are not supported properly when speaking about their experience of care. Listen here.

Episode 2: For our second episode we are joined by Voices of Experience members Jimmy Paul, Director of WEAll Scotland and Oisin King, MSYP for Who Cares? Scotland and politics student at the University of Glasgow. In this episode, Jimmy and Oisin join Claire O’Hara, Each and Every Child Programme Director, to discuss what it is like to use the framing recommendations when speaking about care as someone with lived experience. The guests reflect on how powerful the framing recommendations can be when speaking about their experience of care, or speaking about changes that are needed in how we provide care for Scotland’s children and young people. Listen here.