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We welcome today's announcement of the proposed changes to delivering free school meals and will closely follow it's progress through The Scottish Parliament.   We continue to call on The Scottish Government to expand free school meal provision as part of efforts to tackle child poverty. Families have told us that costs associated with school including school meals add a significant burden to finances that are already stretched on account of the rising cost of living.

We've recently launched our video content on TikTok 🎉 We'll be sharing lots more video content for our younger audience over there, including our Life Skills video series. If you're interested you can see the first few videos we've created below, with plenty more to come! 👇 tiktok.com/@includem2000

Take a look at some of the recent feedback we received from the young people we've supported ❤️ If you want to find out more about our dedicated team available across Scotland supporting children, young people and families then click the link ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eJPCKbgf

This afternoon our Policy & Public Affairs Officer attended an event with Shelter Scotland, sharing the findings from their commissioned research into the experiences of children living in temporary accommodation. This research is critical as it centres the voices and experiences of children and young people. We will look into how we can take forward some of the recommendations from the research to help transform lives of children and young people we work with. Lisa-Kristin Weylandt #TransformingLives

Yesterday, we had Natalie Don-Innes MSP, Minister for Children, Young People and Keeping the Promise in our Glasgow Office. She met with some of the young people we support alongside Matthew from our Youth Inspire Group who got the opportunity to share his own experiences with both the Minister, and ourselves in this fantastic video ⬇️ Lisa-Kristin Weylandt John Nicholson Martyn Walker Lucy Neilson Martin Dorchester John Brown Drew Collier Beth-Anne McDowall

A big thank you to Natalie Don-Innes, Minister for Children, Young People and Keeping the Promise for her time this morning meeting with our team in Glasgow. Our thanks also to the children and young people who joined us and shared their experiences too. #TransformingLives #includemTL Martyn Walker Lisa-Kristin Weylandt John Nicholson Martin Dorchester Drew Collier John Brown Lucy Neilson Beth-Anne McDowall

Heading to Edinburgh today to talk to funders about the challenges we are seeing in the communities we support. Destitution, lack of hope and opportunity, violence and understanding to name a few!Given its #scottishbudget today I would ask Shona Robison to consider this. Big shout out to Providers Unite #providersunite as they march on Westminster today and I ask Rt Hon Rachel Reeves to listen and understand the damage and destruction being caused to the #socialcaresector. These are people and organisations that go the extra mile every day and make our society a better, safer, happier place. SCVO (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations) CCPS - COALITION OF CARE AND SUPPORT PROVIDERS IN SCOTLAND includem Kate Forbes MSP Anas Sarwar Willie Rennie Russell Findlay

❗️This afternoon The Scottish Parliament will finalise and vote on the 25-26 budget.   We repeat our calls for The Scottish Government to mitigate the impending changes to National Insurance and threshold changes that will significantly impact the essential sector. Action is needed to allow us to continue to be there for children, young people and families for years to come.

You might have seen our new Life Skills videos on some of our socials, teaching young people how to do things that might seem easy to some. Whether its tying laces or writing a CV, we're looking to hear from you on what skills we should focus on next to support young people. If you've not had a chance to see these video yet you can check them out 👇 instagram.com/includem2000

We are grateful to Ross Greer MSP for taking the time to hear about the work we do supporting children, young people and families in West Scotland. A great opportunity to amplify their voices and discuss opportunities to transform lives. #TransformingLives #includemTL Lisa-Kristin Weylandt David Ferrier Martyn Walker