The number of complaints about care services has risen in the last four years, according to a new report. In 2017/18 the Care Inspectorate received 4,696 complaints about care services,
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Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has made an “absolute commitment” that the children’s ward at St John’s Hospital in Livingston will fully reopen round the clock in October this year. Ms
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A childcare boss has told an abuse inquiry that too much emphasis was placed on preventing harm from strangers, rather than those youngsters knew. Charles Coggrave told the Scottish Child
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Aberdeen’s depute lord provost has stepped down from his role after being charged in connection with an alleged sexual assault. Councillor Alan Donnelly was suspended by the Scottish Conservatives earlier
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Former Scottish first minister Alex Salmond has appeared in court charged with attempted rape and sexual assault. Mr Salmond faced a total of 14 charges when he appeared at Edinburgh
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The use of pre-recorded evidence in criminal trials in Scotland could be increased after MSPs on Holyrood’s Justice Committee approved initial proposals. The committee has been considering the Vulnerable Witnesses
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Health experts have warned Scottish hospitals are at risk of an outbreak of a new potentially deadly superbug unless attitudes towards screening change. Rates of antibiotic-resistant bacteria carbapenemase producing enterobacteriaceae
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A child migrant has told how she was shipped off to Australia and told she had no family – despite her parents and five siblings being alive. Yvonne Radzevicius was
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CCTV footage has been released in the search for a missing pensioner with dementia in Renfrewshire. Allan Burns from Kilbarchan was last seen on Friday at around 3.15pm on a
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A senior paediatrician has urged the Scottish Government to move from policies to action to transform children’s health. Professor Steve Turner made the comments as a scorecard marking the government’s
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