Scotland’s Deputy First Minister has insisted that asking higher earners to pay more is the “right choice” as she announced the creation of a new income tax band for those
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Social care leaders felt “blindsided” by recently-announced changes to visa rules banning care workers from bringing their families to the UK and have “grave concerns” it could drive people from
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A fatal accident inquiry (FAI) is set to go ahead in the new year into the deaths of two young people who took their own lives at a young offenders
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Inspectors have raised concerns prisoners’ rights to an hour’s exercise in the fresh air every day are “clearly being breached” at Scotland’s national holding facility for children and young offenders.
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Seventeen organisations have come together in a call for the Scottish Government to increase mental health funding. Bipolar Scotland, the Royal College of GPs, Scottish Action for Mental Health (SAMH),
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Five men, aged between 69 and 90, have been arrested and charged in connection with alleged, non-recent, abuse incidents at Edinburgh Academy, police have said. Police Scotland said that a
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Scotland’s highest civil court has ruled that the UK Government’s blocking of controversial gender reforms was lawful. The Scottish Government mounted the legal challenge earlier in the year after Westminster
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A care home manager allegedly lied to a man, stating he was with his father when he died, the Scottish Covid Inquiry has heard. William Jolly, of Scottish Covid Bereaved,
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The UK Government’s immigration plans are a “real dark day” for the country, Scotland’s First Minister said as he accused the Prime Minister of dismantling asylum processes. Humza Yousaf, whose
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Mental wellbeing in Scotland is at its lowest level on record, a survey has suggested. The Scottish Health Survey, published on Tuesday by the Scottish Centre for Social Research and
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