Boost For Domestic Violence Project
A domestic violence initiative aimed at helping victims hit by their partners is to receive a cash boost of almost £2 million, Home Secretary John Reid has announced.
Read MoreA domestic violence initiative aimed at helping victims hit by their partners is to receive a cash boost of almost £2 million, Home Secretary John Reid has announced.
Read MorePoor families have to pay on average a £1,000 annual “poverty premium” for essential goods and services such as gas, electricity and banking, because they cannot access the deals enjoyed by better off households, charities say today.
Read MoreBy 1 April 2007, the social work bursary and postgraduate bursary service will be transferred from the General Social Care Council (GSCC) to the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA).
Read MoreUp to 100 nurses, lawyers, civil servants and other professional people are contacting Scotland’s national date-rape hotline every year to report being sexually assaulted after having their drinks spiked.
{mosimage}The group Crisis, which operates the country’s only dedicated drug-rape support service, says it is receiving an average of two calls a week, the overwhelming majority coming from professional women who claim they were drugged in wine bars.
The charity says Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Helensburgh are three particular hotspots.
Campaigners say the true scale of the crime is far higher, with some estimates putting the figure at as many as 1,300 victims a year. But police are sceptical about the claims, insisting the common denominator in the cases investigated is the large amount of alcohol drunk by the complainer.
Jane Cumming, from Crisis, the Scottish arm of national date-rape charity The Roofie Foundation, which launched the hotline in 2005, said: “The profile of victims has changed. The calls we are getting are definitely increasingly from the professional classes.
Read MoreScotland is “sleepwalking” into a diabetes epidemic that will cause hundreds of thousands of people to die young, experts warn today. Research from Edinburgh University reveals the number of people diagnosed with type-2 diabetes will soar by 60 per cent within the next ten years.
Read MoreA nursing home manager who spent five years stealing cash from an elderly resident as she lay dying from cancer has escaped a jail sentence. Kerry Smith paid back the cash, despite her 79-year-old victim dying before she saw a penny.
Read MoreTwo brothers in their 80s yesterday described how they attempted to fight off armed robbers who beat them in their own home. In the latest horrific crime against the elderly, three masked men, armed with a gun and a bat, entered the brothers’ house n Drumaness, where they proceeded to threaten the two brothers, Bill and Tommy Killen, ransack their home and flee with a sum of cash.
Read MoreWelsh children as young as 11 are on the rocky road to alcoholism, we can reveal. A special investigation by Wales on Sunday has unveiled an increasing number of young kids under the age of 18 being treated in A&E hospital wards for shocking levels of alcohol abuse.
Read MoreA children’s charity yesterday slammed a two-year jail sentence handed to a paedophile who groomed a 14-year-old girl over the internet. Old enough to be his victim’s grandfather, 54-year-old Gary Scutchings posed as a girl called Sophie to win her confidence before admitting he was a man and persuading her to send topless photos.
Read MoreHundreds of disabled workers staged a protest as part of a campaign to prevent the closure of their factories. Around 300 people marched through Cardiff to highlight a review of Remploy factories, the biggest employer of disabled workers in Britain.