Having our say
Through our campaigning work, the SPF and our affiliated members are regularly invited to contribute to news articles and media reports on issues affecting older people.
Please click on the relevant links below to read articles to which we have contributed.
News articles
- Dundee council rejects Scottish Government bid to raise bus pass age limit
- Fears for OAPs in fuel poverty across the area after rise in deaths over winter
- Fears emergency crews are stretched to limit after ambulance took two hours to attend ‘life-threatening’ situation in Dundee
- Scotland’s firefighters set for elderly ‘care’ role with plans to help heart attack victims and dementia patients
- Rise in Dundee care home abuse allegations
- Pensioners face growing threat as councils target property to pay for final years in home
- Grim reality of care home food revealed
- Scots live far from parents
- How a generation – and 113 miles – separate today’s pensioners from their children
- Fear that Fife budget cuts will hit the elderly
- ‘Patronising’ NHS handbook advises OAPs how not to trip
- Elderly abandoned in their own homes
- Fast-track will beat injustice but hurt workplace schemes
- Budget 2013: Scottish reaction to Osborne statement
- Free bus travel for pensioners secured with new £10m deal
- Free bus travel for Scotland’s elderly and disabled secured in new deal
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- Big six energy firms’ customer tariffs campaign ‘a total sham’
- SSE boss ‘fed up’ with criticism over power firm’s ‘modest’ £397.5m profits
- Scots Face Decision of Whether to Eat or Heat
- Winter Already Tough on Scottish Elderly
- 200,000 Elderly at Risk in Sub-Zero Scotland
SPF Annual Conferences
- Scottish pensioners hit out at ‘injustice’ at Glasgow City Chambers
- Labour’s Ken Macintosh vows to campaign against care tax and SNP’s Stewart McDonald hits out at EU referendum
- Scottish Pensioners’ Forum annual conference in Motherwell’s GLO Centre
- Happy returns as group for the elderly comes of age
- Scottish Pensioners’ Forum annual conference in Motherwell’s GLO Centre
- Bleak Future as Scots OAPs face Abject Poverty
- Heartbreak of Pensioners in Poverty
- One Country Two Nations
