Equality & Human Rights Case Service

The Education Law Unit at Govan Law Centre is a national resource. Our Equality and Human Rights case service aims to help school pupils who have been discriminated against or whose human rights have been breached. Click Here to open a Pdf leaflet from the Govan Law Centre www.edlaw.org.uk

The Energy Challenge

The Energy Challenge is a partnership between Energy Action Scotland and Community Service Volunteers (CSV) in Scotland and is funded by ExxonMobil. The Challenge aims to provide information and support to householders across Scotland to help them manage their fuel bills, save energy and keep warm in their homes. Members of the CSV's Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme (RSVP) have received energy awareness training from Energy Action Scotland, making them 'Energy Champions'. This leaflet is specially designed to help the volunteers provide information and advice on energy matters to people within the community.

Fuel Poverty

We would all like to keep warm in our homes at a price we can afford. However, this is not always easy to do. Sometimes our homes are difficult to heat, are cold and draughty or damp, no matter how much we turn the heating up. Poor housing conditions can also affect our health. This problem is known as fuel poverty.

A household is said to be in fuel poverty if it needs to spend 10% or more of its income on all fuel use, which includes keeping the indoor temperature between 18°C and 24°C (64°F - 75°F) for health and comfort.

Energy-saving light bulbs blamed for migraines

By Laura Clout

Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 03/01/2008

Low-energy bulbs 'could cause skin cancer'

Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 05/01/2008

Published: Tuesday 09 Oct 2007 by Fife Council

Revised charges for some home care services have been approved by the Council's social work and health committee. The revised charges will bring them into line with most other local authorities in Scotland. This will mean the Council will recover a larger proportion of the cost of service delivery from service users and introduce charges for some services which were previously provided free. This is in line with the Council's charging policy, agreed in December 2005, which adopts a consistent approach across all council services to the management of charges.

Skill Scotland: supporting you into further study

Going to college or university can be an exciting, but daunting, experience.  You might want to gain a new qualification to improve your prospects, or retrain for a new career.   As well as boosting your earning potential, taking up a course of study can enable you to develop valuable skills and experience, study a subject you enjoy in more depth, and interact with people from different backgrounds.  But how much will it cost?  Are you entitled to any extra help? What are your rights?

More disabled people get top jobs

The number of disabled people appointed to public bodies is slowly rising, according to new figures.

First disability hate crime centres open  

Four centres for people to report disability hate crimes are to open in Yorkshire, in what is believed to be the first scheme of its kind in the country.           

This was updated on the 11th of October 2006.

Useful tips to use in your disability by Pauline Medd

I'm going to be perfectly honest with you I have decided to write this because before I became as bad as I am I used to say to people how do you manage and I would get oh I take precautions (what does that mean), these are useful tips that I have found during my disability, not that anybody has told me about them they probably have happened through need, so I would like to share them I hope they will be useful to you.

The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) helps you to make sure your telephone number is no longer available to organisations, including charities and voluntary organisations who may telephone you with offers and information you do not wish to receive.