Union leaders have joined with medics, faith groups and charities to challenge the three candidates vying to become Scotland’s next first minister to do more to tackle child poverty. Some
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A care home resident has appeared in court charged with murder of a care worker after a disturbance at a supported living service in Stirling. Kellyanne McNaughton, 32, appeared at
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A former teacher accused of abusing children at two private schools in Edinburgh has been named as Iain Wares after an order preventing his identification was lifted. The Scottish Child
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A nine-year-old boy has written to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak telling him his parents feel “failed and forgotten” as he pleaded for better support for disabled children and their families.
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A woman whose husband died from cancer while she was being treated for the disease has been chosen to launch a major cancer research fundraising campaign. Shona MacLaren, 34, was
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The three candidates running to be Scotland’s next first minister are being urged to commit to making sure public services “remain a priority”. Leaders of the trade union Unison made
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Scotland has become the first part of the UK to stop using an anaesthetic gas in the NHS which has a global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide.
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SNP leadership hopeful Kate Forbes has said she is “hugely supportive” of her party’s National Care Service (NCS) proposals, but pledged to decentralise the approach to support local services. The
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A transgender rapist who raped two women while still a man has been jailed for eight years. Isla Bryson, from Clydebank, was sentenced to eight years in prison at the
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SNP leadership candidate Kate Forbes has said she would “look again” at proposals for a National Care Service (NCS) and consider a reorganisation of the NHS if elected first minister.
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