September 2023:
The Edinburgh Community Link Worker Network launched their Annual Review for 2022/23 during the annual network event on Wed 27 Sep, 2023.
October 2022:
The Edinburgh Community Link Worker Network launched their Annual Review for 2021/22 at an event to celebrate 5 years of the Network on Wed 12 Oct, 2o22. They also shared some key stats to mark the 5 years of the Network, which you can find here.
July 2022:
Lack of structure holding back social prescribing – an interview with Alison Leitch (Assistant Service Manager for the Edinburgh Community Link Worker Network).
March 2022
In the celebrate Social Prescribing day the CLW Network took the opportunity to highlight the impact that social prescribing has!
The North Area Lead for Edinburgh, Alison Leitch, wrote a blog speaking to the importance of social prescribing and her own experiences with it.
‘Social prescribing, is an approach (or range of approaches) for connecting people to non-medical sources of support or resources in the community which are likely to help with the health problems they are experiencing.’
Read the full blog here.
October 2021
Edinburgh’s CLW Network celebrated #LinkWorkerDay2021 (Fri 8 Oct) by publishing the Edinburgh Community Link Worker Network Review of 2020-21.
The review focused on the work carried out by the Community Link Workers who are funded as part of the National Programme for community link working. The report details the progress of the service and, significantly, the way the CLWs adapted – flexibly and thoughtfully – to provide services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alongside this you can get a more personal insight into some of the challenges of the last year in a new blog by Julie Roxburgh (Deep End Community Link Worker, Wester Hailes) – A Reflection on the Last Year:
‘I came back to work in October 2020, after a year of maternity leave. Never in my wildest dreams could I have predicted, while setting my out-of-office, that the world would be such a different place in 12 months time. The role I had paused suddenly felt very different. It had adapted and responded, which of course was always what being a Community Link Worker (CLW) was all about.’
Read the full blog here.
