Useful websites
www.healthyliving.gov.uk Scottish website on healthy eating which provides information such as healthy recipes, advice and guidance about healthy eating and a questionnaire to measure how healthy your diet is
www.scotland.gov.uk/ Scottish Executive website with information about Scottish health and food and health
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/ City of Edinburgh Council website which details information on the Children and Family Centres if you follow the links into Social Work then Children, Young People and families
www.dancebase.co.uk website for Scotlands national centre for dance. Their outreach projects involve the Children and Family Centres
www.leep.org.uk/ website for Lothian and Edinburgh Environmental Partnership which works to develop environmental projects which produce an economic benefit to Edinburgh and the Lothians
www.walktoschool.org - website for the City of Edinburghs walk to school initiative. International walk to school week is happening from 3rd of October to the 7th October 2005. If you are interested in finding out more about this please contact the travel schools coordinators Gill Kelly or Mark Symonds on 0131 469 3811 or 0131 469 3817.
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/bookstart/ website puts books into the hands of babies and their families. Parents receive a free book bag containing 2 books, nursery rhymes and an invitation to join the local library at their babys 7 month hearing clinic.
www.poverty.org The Conference on Poverty seeks to develop full partnerships between business leaders who are often asked to pay for services and social welfare professionals who provide those services. They believe that leadership exists in our local communities. Bringing it together is their goal.
www.povertyinformation.org The Scottish Poverty Information Unit seeks to work in partnership with governmental and non-governmental agencies to enable the widest possible access to the policy making process. The Unit also provides a consultancy service.
www.povertyalliance.org The Poverty Alliance aims to combat poverty by effecting change in the policies, practices and beliefs of communities, policy makers, professionals and the general public.
www.scotland.gov.uk/stats/simd2004 The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2004 identifies the most deprived areas across Scotland. It is based on 31 indicators in the six individual domains of Current Income, Employment, Housing, Health, Education, Skills and Training and Geographic Access to Services and Telecommunications.
www.bris.ac.uk/poverty/background.html This International Centre for Poverty Research is named after Peter Townsend, who has been at the forefront of poverty studies since the 1950s. As well as challenging the philosphical and theoretical constructs of poverty, he has also been instrumental in the development of new methods of measuring and defining poverty and inequality in the United Kingdom and around the world.
www.surestart.gov.uk/ Sure Start is the government programme to deliver the best start in life for every child. They bring together, early education, childcare, health and family support.