The Scottish Government remains firmly committed to implementing the named person scheme as soon as practicable, John Swinney has said. The Deputy First Minister made the pledge as he confirmed
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Forty-one projects will benefit from a share of £15 million to improve provision of mental health places of safety, the government announced today. The Department of Health funding is supporting
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Homeless people are too often given “ineffectual and meaningless” advice by councils which treat them badly, according to MPs. A report by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee blames
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The Scottish Government is being urged to stop proposed closures to maternity units and other hospital services in the west of Scotland. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) plans a
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Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith has accused the Tories of having a “secret plan to privatise the NHS” ahead of a major speech on the health service. It will be
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Older teenagers could be removed from the Scottish Government’s named-person scheme, John Swinney has said. The Deputy First Minister said Labour’s call for the legislation to be limited to children
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Only three in 100 children in care in England receive the independent support they may legally be entitled to. If it is in their interests, every child in the country
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Ministers have been accused of suppressing a critical evaluation of the Government’s Troubled Families initiative which cast doubt on the effectiveness of the programme. The initiative, launched in the wake
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The chairwoman who has quit the troubled inquiry into child sex abuse has been asked to explain herself to MPs. Dame Lowell Goddard is the third person to resign as
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New guidelines will allow immigration detainees to be put in solitary confinement for being “stubborn”, a leading human rights campaign group has said. Liberty condemned the “unprecedented” new Home Office
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