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Media release: Local councils connect Scottish businesses to public contract opportunities through Supplier Development Programme ABERDEEN City Council, Aberdeenshire Council and Highland Council Shared Procurement Service have announced an initiative for local businesses looking for a new path to market in 2021. Each year, £11bn is spent in Scotland’s public sector on goods, works and services, and the Shared Procurement Service wants to engage with local businesses to deliver a share of upcoming contracts. The three councils have teamed up with the Supplier Development Programme (SDP), a free business support service that offers tender training and advice to Scottish micro, small and medium-sized businesses. ....
What next for Housing First in Scotland? I was recently invited to speak at Holyrood’s annual Homelessness Event about the important issue of scaling up Housing First in Scotland. But why Housing First? And why now? If you don’t work in Scotland you may be forgiven for not knowing that it was in Glasgow, back in 2010, that Housing First was first introduced in the UK. I’d just finished helping Sarah Johnsen at Heriot-Watt on the first review of Housing First in the UK – then a promising new intervention from the US. So, imagine my excitement when I learned that Turning Point Scotland were working on their own Housing First project. I never imagined that, ten years on, we’d be so close to introducing it on a grand scale across the country. ....