Clergymen at a residential facility had “unrestrained access” to vulnerable children they targeted with sexual and physical abuse, a report has found. The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has published judge
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New research has found an increase in the number of Scots thinking about suicide during the coronavirus pandemic. The second wave of the Scottish Covid-19 Mental Health Tracker survey, which
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Survivors of abuse in Scottish football have described how they were raped and sexually assaulted, in a report into allegations of abuse within the sport. The Scottish Football Association (SFA)
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An autistic teenager who started writing thank you cards to health and care workers to deal with his anxiety about the pandemic has now sent almost 600 cards and is
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The UK Government is “bailing out” Scotland to help speed up its vaccine rollout, a minister has suggested. Jacob Rees-Mogg made the claim as he was quizzed over whether the
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The UK Government has offered to step in and help vaccinate Scots against coronavirus – as Nicola Sturgeon again faced claims that the programme is “lagging way behind” other parts
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Scotland has entered the second phase of its plan to give the population a vaccine to combat coronavirus with two new mass vaccination centres opening on Monday. The facilities at
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Holyrood has unanimously backed the principles of new laws aimed at tackling the “scourge of domestic abuse” despite widespread concerns about the proposed Bill. Scotland’s Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf (pictured)
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Survivors of child abuse still feel a waiver built into a new Bill to compensate them is a “betrayal”, a campaigner has said. The Redress for Survivors (Historical Child Abuse
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Construction of a Covid-19 testing megalab is to be halted, the UK Government has announced. In November, the Government announced that a new megalab was being constructed in Scotland, with
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