The Scottish Child Payment will be doubled to £20 per week if the SNP are re-elected, Nicola Sturgeon has said. The SNP leader said tackling child poverty should be a
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A lack of cash is preventing councils from “solving some of the problems facing our communities”, the president of local authorities body Cosla has said. Alison Evison (pictured) said local
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More than 154,000 NHS Scotland staff are to be offered a pay rise of at least 4% in a deal from the Scottish Government. The move will benefit employees with
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New immigration rules could worsen staff shortages in the social care sector, the Scottish Government has warned. Health Secretary Jeane Freeman (pictured) has written to the UK Government seeking an
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The number of Scots being housed in temporary accommodation increased by more than a quarter during the Covid-19 pandemic, the latest homelessness figures show. Scottish Government statistics showed that as
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More than £3 million has been given to help around 2,000 young disabled people in Scotland maintain employment during the pandemic. The Transition Fund, administered by Independent Living Fund (ILF)
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Mental health triage cars will be launched next month to offer better support response to people in distress after successful pilots in Glasgow and Inverness. The new initiative is a
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People with a severe mental illness are more likely to die following a heart attack than those without a psychiatric diagnosis, new research has suggested. Experts at the University of
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Lawyers have voiced their opposition to proposals for juryless trials in serious sex crime cases. A cross-justice review group has recommended that a new specialist court which operates with “trauma-informed”
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A woman only discovered that a do not resuscitate order had been put on her husband by accident after finding documents left on her sofa by a health worker. Sonya
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