{"id":9528,"date":"2022-11-02T12:33:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T11:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/?p=9528"},"modified":"2022-11-02T12:33:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T11:33:33","slug":"cost-of-living-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/2022\/11\/02\/cost-of-living-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Living Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_x_x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted0 x_elementToProof\"><i><b>Message from Corporate Communications Team<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted0 x_elementToProof\"><i>The council has a wide-ranging campaign underway to provide advice for those residents (and businesses) who require support with the rising cost of living.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted0\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted0\"><i>Called<span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">Help With Costs,<\/span><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span>the campaign has sought to pull together advice and information on a number of key areas. These areas can be broken down into<span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><b class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">energy<\/b><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span>(business and residential),<span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><b class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">benefits\/financial support<\/b><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span>and help with<span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><b class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">school costs<\/b>. Work to target key audience groups has already begun and officers from several services have helped develop the content.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted0\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted0\"><i>A leaflet and business card have been created and are both available within public reception areas (Libraries, Partnership Centres, Civic Centre). We also provided a QR code to scan in<span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">Bulletin<\/span>, which householders are encouraged to keep and check regularly.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted0\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted0\"><i>However, given the ever-changing landscape, our main focus is to direct customers to the online Information Hub. This will be updated as and when required and will aim to capture the advice and support being provided by the council, partners and national bodies.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted0\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_MsoNormal\"><a class=\"x_ContentPasted0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westlothian.gov.uk\/costofliving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"0\"><i>Cost of Living Hub West Lothian &#8211; West Lothian Council<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted0\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_x_x_MsoNormal x_ContentPasted0\"><i>Should any service want to update this Hub with relevant information, please contact<span class=\"x_ContentPasted0\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"x_ContentPasted0\" href=\"mailto:communications@westlothian.gov.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-safelink=\"true\" data-linkindex=\"1\">communications@westlothian.gov.uk<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message from Corporate Communications Team The council has a wide-ranging campaign underway to provide advice for those residents (and businesses) who require support with the rising cost of living. \u00a0 Called\u00a0Help With Costs,\u00a0the campaign has sought to pull together advice and information on a number of key areas. These areas can be broken down into\u00a0energy\u00a0(business &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/2022\/11\/02\/cost-of-living-support\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cost of Living Support<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9529,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9528\/revisions\/9529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/StJosephsPS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}