Pupils at Gordonstoun boarding school were “feral” and regularly showed racist and sexist behaviour, an inquiry has been told. The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry heard from a woman who attended
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The Scottish Government has created a group to ensure people close to suicide receive the support they need. In 2020, 805 people in Scotland lost their lives to suicide, according
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The Scottish Government has been urged to set up a peer support network for asylum seekers who are facing destitution. The British Red Cross, along with the Refugee Survival Trust,
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Accident and Emergency waiting times have hit their worst level on record once again, with just 71.3% of patients seen within the four-hour target. The latest weekly statistics reveal that
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Boris Johnson’s “regressive” £12 billion tax rise will not fix social care and further punishes businesses, senior Tories have warned. Chancellor Rishi Sunak was also urged to use this month’s
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More than 40,000 calls to NHS Scotland’s mental health crisis line have been abandoned in the last year, figures show. Between July 2020 and June this year, 40,424 of the
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Scottish Labour has said it is “deeply troubling” that a contract to help design the new National Care Service has been awarded to a private company. The party and trade
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The carer’s allowance supplement to be paid this winter will be doubled after MSPs unanimously backed a bill in Holyrood. The Carer’s Allowance Supplement (Scotland) Bill was passed on Thursday,
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A family has launched a civil action against Scotland’s prison service and NHS Forth Valley after their “high-risk” suicidal son took his own life in a cell. William Brown –
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Nicola Sturgeon said she is keeping an open mind on whether to support the Scottish Conservatives’ plans for a “right to recovery” in law to tackle the country’s drug deaths
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