Over a third of health boards in Scotland need intervention after dropping below expected standards, MSPs have been told. In a letter to the health committee at Holyrood, NHS Scotland
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Childline volunteers will be working around the clock to ensure struggling young people have someone to talk to over the festive season. Volunteers expect to deliver hundreds of counselling sessions
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Scotland will recruit an extra 80 mental health professionals to work with children and young people with a £4 million investment. Psychologists, nurses, allied health professionals and administration workers are
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Nicola Sturgeon has branded the UK Government’s immigration proposals “an act of vandalism” as she called for a visa allowing Europeans to work in Scotland even if they earn less
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The Care Inspectorate have announced the appointment of Peter Macleod as their new Chief Executive. Mr Macleod is currently Director of Children’s Services and Chief Social Worker, at Renfrewshire Council,
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Scottish councils’ allocations in the draft budget put at risk the delivery of essential services next year, according to local government body Cosla. Total funding for both the revenue and
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The Scottish Conservatives have called on ministers to deliver on a pledge to publish a national strategy to combat loneliness by the end of the year. The government vowed to
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The “cruel” two-child benefits cap must be brought to an end in Scotland, Jeremy Corbyn has said. Speaking in Edinburgh at a Christmas lunch attended by people who have experienced
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A former NHS Tayside boss was given double the payoff she was entitled to because of the “total incompetence” of the assistant chief executive, MSPs have learned. A settlement payment
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Plans to scrap the one-year time limit on raising sexual harassment complaints against MSPs have been put forward at the Scottish Parliament. The proposal is one of a series of
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