The Richmond Fellowship Scotland

FOCUS expands services

FOCUS (Freedom of Choice United Services) has announced the expansion of its services with the appointment of two new Development Officers.

Stephen McNulty transfers from the Glasgow region where he has worked as a Support Worker since 2000 and James Thomson joins from the prison service where he spent 17 years as a prison officer at HMP Barlinnie. The new appointments signal a restructuring of FOCUS which now has three Development Officers, each responsible for one its three priorities: Challenging Stigma, Staff Training and Service Interviewing.

Susan McEntee, FOCUS Manager, said:

"The new appointments will allow us to concentrate more fully on each priority, enabling the people we sign-up to become experts in that area. We hope that the work of FOCUS will therefore reach a wider audience within The Richmond Fellowship Scotland and that the quality of our work will improve.

"In the last two years, we've been able to influence key changes within the organisation and I'm confident that we can continue to involve the people we support in shaping its future direction."

For more information about the work of FOCUS, please click here.