Cash Threat To Safe Havens For Women
A charity helping women escape domestic abuse in Moray is close to breaking point. Hundreds of desperate women and their children have been given their lives back after turning to Moray Women’s Aid.
Read MoreA charity helping women escape domestic abuse in Moray is close to breaking point. Hundreds of desperate women and their children have been given their lives back after turning to Moray Women’s Aid.
Read MoreLessons learned from the Rosepark Nursing Home tragedy were crucial in saving the lives of care-home residents trapped in a fire, it emerged last night.
{mosimage}Eighty-nine residents of the Douglas View Care Centre in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, were evacuated yesterday when a blaze broke out in the upper floors just before 7am.
Although police and staff managed to help some residents to safety, firefighters were forced to enter the smoke-filled building to complete the rescue.
Nine residents and a female staff member were taken to nearby hospitals suffering from the effects of smoke, but none suffered serious injuries.
Read MoreA growing number of primary-school children in Scotland are troubled and unhappy, it was claimed yesterday.
Read MoreThe last of the six fingerprint specialists at the heart of the Shirley McKie scandal has been sacked, prompting another legal action which could lead to a compensation bill of hundreds of thousands for Scottish ministers.
Read MoreToday one in 90 Scots suffers from dementia. By 2031 it will be one in 50. During the life of the next Scottish Parliament alone, the number of people living with the condition will climb by almost 4500. But the charity Alzheimer Scotland says the country is not coping.
Read MoreFirefighters said a swift response from the emergency services saved the lives of 60 people during a major fire at a care home. Residents and members of staff were removed from Douglas View care centre in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.
Read MoreOrganisations representing disabled people have vowed to campaign for more funding from the Scottish Executive for independent living support.
Read MoreA radical change in culture and practice is needed to achieve dignified care for older people, says an editorial in this week’s BMJ. The welfare of older people who live in care homes has raised concern for decades in many countries, write Marion McMurdo and Miles Witham at the University of Dundee.
Read MorePolice in Inverness have set up a new unit which will concentrate on domestic violence, cases involving vulnerable adults and child protection inquiries.
Read MoreA woman in a wheelchair who was indecently assaulted by a man posing as a doctor yesterday spoke for the first time about her ordeal.
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