Personal story

Award winning Glasgow Women’s Supported Bail Service celebrate success

June 30, 2017June 30, 2017 Andy DewarPersonal story

Glasgow Women’s Supported Bail Service, delivered in partnership with Turning Point Scotland & Aberlour, recently won the ‘Silo Buster’ Award at the Scottish Social Services[…]

Gaining confidence & skills through employment

May 31, 2017June 15, 2017 Andy DewarPersonal story

In an earlier blog last year we brought you the story of Leeann. Leeann previously used Turning Point Scotland 218 service but now works full[…]

Anne’s story

March 24, 2017 Andy DewarPersonal story

Turning Point Scotland 218 service is well known as offering support to women in the justice system. However Turning Point Scotland Turnaround community programme is available[…]

Stayin’ oOT!

March 1, 2017March 1, 2017 Andy DewarPersonal story

Thanks to Emma Lewis and Lindsay Kerr, Occupational Therapists, for this week’s blog. A really interesting feature if you had never considerd how occupational therapy[…]

Changing lives at Tomorrow’s Women

February 3, 2017 Andy DewarPersonal story

Thanks to Tommorrow’s Women in Glasgow for allowing us to share this recent story about the impact the service is having in the lives of[…]

Offering counselling support for women on bail supervision

January 27, 2017February 3, 2017 Andy DewarPersonal story

This week’s blog comes from Alison Wood, Person-Centred Counsellor, Sacro The South West Scotland Bail Service is a partnership between South West Scotland’s local authorities,[…]

How do we measure ‘success’ in community justice?

January 13, 2017 Andy DewarPersonal story

Organisations working with people in the justice system are frequently asked to show some kind of measure of success, to measure if a project, service[…]

Life changing experiences at Vox Liminis

December 15, 2016December 15, 2016 Andy DewarPersonal story

Thanks to Vox Liminis for letting us share this blog about Lisa, who started working with them. They are a fantastic creative organisation bringing a range of[…]

The Glass Ceiling – Not my problem

December 9, 2016December 9, 2016 Andy DewarPersonal story

With thanks to Richard Thomson, Recruit with Conviction, for this thought provoking and emotional blog. The Glass Ceiling – Not my problem (Names changed) “The glass[…]

Janet Reno changed my life

November 18, 2016November 18, 2016 Andy DewarPersonal story

Great inspiring blog this week from Christian McNeill, Advocate, former District Tribunal Judge now a Resilience Facilitator. In case you are too young to know who[…]