Promoting 'Healthy Know How' campaign
Martin Whitfield MSP is is helping to promote NHS 24’s spring campaign ‘Healthy Know How’.

The health campaign highlights the need to be prepared for common illnesses and ailments at home, while also reminding the public to check that they have enough prescription medication to last over the Easter weekend.

Healthy Know How tips include:
- Check your repeat prescription, order only what you need, in plenty of time.
- Keep some medicines to treat common illnesses at home.
- If you become unwell, NHS inform and the NHS 24 Online app have
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Supporting Young Carers Action Day
Today (Wednesday 13th March) is Young Carers Action Day, organised and led by Carers Trust to raise awareness of young carers.

This year's theme is Fair Futures for Young Carers. The day will focus on building a more equal future for young carers and removing barriers that many of their peers do not face.

Carers Trust have spoken to hundreds of young carers, including at the Scottish Young Carers Festival and the overarching theme young carers wanted to talk about was their futures.

To mark this year’s Young Carers Action Day, Carers T
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BBC Scotland Learning at Holyrood
Martin Whitfield MSP today met with representatives from BBC Scotland at their exhibition stand at the Scottish Parliament.

The BBC exhibition, which ran from Tuesday 5 to Thursday 7 March, aimed to showcase the range of learning resources provided by BBC Scotland Learning and provided an opportunity for MSPs to meet with producers and pupils who make and use the learning content.

Learn at BBC Scotland provides resources from Bitesize to Authors Live, from Young Reporter to The LAB, and the BBC offers support for parents, teachers and st
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Marking Scottish Apprenticeship Week
4 to 8 March is Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2024 and Martin Whitfield MSP helped mark the week with a visit to a local employer to meet staff who have benefited from apprenticeships.

This year the South Scotland MSP went to Dunbar Leisure Pool to chat with three members of Enjoy Leisure staff who have all undergone apprenticeships to help develop their careers in the leisure sector.

While Mr Whitfield was at the Leisure Pool he also presented one of the three staff, Abby Russell, with her Modern Apprenticeship certificate of completion.
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Supporting ELREC's work
Martin Whitfield MSP has met with representatives of Edinburgh and Lothians Racial Equality Council (ELREC) at the Scottish Parliament.

Mr Whitfield joined colleagues in visiting the ELREC exhibition stand at Holyrood where they shared information on their latest work tackling inequality and empowering ethnic minority communities.

Speaking afterwards, Martin Whitfield MSP said:

"I was pleased to visit the ELREC stand at parliament and catch up with its representatives on their latest work and activity. 

"ELREC undertakes a range of
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