We’re so excited to be starting a new Peer Support Group in Midlothian ☀️ Our group will be for primary-school aged children and their family! If you are a family member affected by imprisonment who would be interested in this group, please get in touch with Steph! 💬

“This is the 4th report we’ve done on travel since 2002 and the situation simply isn’t improving” - our CEO Nancy Loucks Kenny speaking on BBC Radio Scotland this morning ahead of our latest travel report launch today.

#NoEasyJourney

TONIGHT. Cockenzie Hub, East Lothian. Autism through a neurodiversity affirming lens. Training session. Join us if you can. Please RT and message if interested in neurodiversity or trauma informed training ❤️

Ahead of our report launch on Thursday our Head of Family Support spoke to STV News about the importance of families being able to visit loved ones in prison. Families are making sacrifices to be able to visit & barriers need to be removed to better support contact #NoEasyJourney

An afternoon of excellent trauma training ⁦⁦Families Outside⁩ with the very wonderful Sarah Barratt, ⁦Heavy Sound⁩’s Educational Psychologist ❤️

Parent and carer drop in Heavy Sound this Friday. Please come along if you can, and RT. Thank you 🤘💕

📢Join our team! We have new vacancies available within our Support team for the East! If you're interested, we want to hear from you! Learn more via our website - ow.ly/f3H750RjJyR

A sensible and welcome take on things from Scottish Prison Service whose frustration is palpable. An abnormally high prison population doesn't help prisoners, prison staff or victims.

Come and work with us G20 Youth Project 💜

Maryhill is a brilliant place to work and through this role you can make a positive difference

These delays put lives at risk and at Families Outside we are concerned about the continuing number of deaths in custody. A vital push for much-needed change in the response to deaths is needed, especially for the way families are involved and supported. ow.ly/67SR50RgTSt

18 April 2024. Now 9 years 7 months homeless after falling through the cracks of our health, housing & justice systems. Almost a decade without support has left him isolated and withdrawn. Much change needed. Humza Yousaf Paul McLennan - MSP for East Lothian Maree Todd

Different not less ❤️ Autism through a neurodiversity affirming lens. Training session at Cockenzie Hub on 24 April. Please come along and RT. If the date doesn’t suit we can come to you - please DM for further information 🙏❤️ #EastLothian ⁦EmmaBrownELC⁩ ⁦East Lothian Courier⁩

Anyone connected to justice in any way (and that is many people in Scotland) needs to read this. Jim's balanced and evocative words simultaneously tell a narrative and educates in equal measure. We need people to read and listen, but even more to take action.

“There is quite a big body of evidence out there about what works, we just need to decide whether we’re going to follow it or not now.” CJS' Karyn McCluskey & Gemma Fraser are quoted in 1919 Magazine about ScotGov Justice's review into #CommunityFirst sentencing options ⬇️

Amazing team supporting families affected by imprisonment. Still time to apply to join our board. Come and be a change maker 🙌Please RT. Thanks all ❤️

'Rehab can make significant cost savings downstream and may be more cost effective than other treatment options in the long term.' recoveryreview.blog/2023/03/26/les…

Aidan Martin Christina McKelvie Aid & Abet Linda Bendle SISCO Fiona McQueen REACH David McCartney

“First and foremost, it fills my soul, to be in this giving. It gives me a feeling of a lot of meaning in this world, a feeling of making amends… It solves a lot of unresolved issues in my life.” #peersupport #recovery tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A truly grim set of stats revealing the deepening decline of Scottish Government’s Affordable Housing Supply Programme. 9,860 children desperately need a home. Families stuck for months & in far too many cases, years in temp accomm will now have a much longer wait for a place to call home

Many women carrying the costs of imprisonment describe themselves as 'coping' with these costs through silent suffering and sacrifice.

Some mums reported skipping meals to make sure their children could eat...