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Almost 500 homes created for homeless people

Two of Scotland’s biggest housing providers have announced they are to commit 475 properties to homeless people

NEWS 8 December 2017

Regeneration & Housing

Revealed: Ed Sheeran stars in 2017’s worst poverty porn charity appeal

An Ed Sheeran-fronted Comic Relief video has been named as this year’s worst example of charity “poverty porn”

NEWS 8 December 2017

Poll: should Named Person legislation be scrapped?

POLL 7 December 2017

Fury at Chancellor’s “derogatory” disabled comments

Chancellor Philip Hammond has been savaged for making “totally unacceptable and derogatory comments” about disabled people

NEWS 7 December 2017

Social Justice & Poverty

Jo Cox charity donation from hotel duped by racists

A hotel duped by a fascist group has pledged a donation to the charity set up in memory of murdered MP Jo Cox

NEWS 7 December 2017

Social Justice & Poverty

Schools are failing a generation of young carers

Schools are failing a generation of children who are sacrificing their futures to care for sick or disabled family members, Barnardo’s has found

NEWS 7 December 2017

Families & Young People

Climate change driving Scottish birds to the brink

Climate change is having a devastating impact on some of Scotland’s rarest breeding birds

NEWS 5 December 2017

Environment & International

Parents protest charity Christmas collections in schools

Parents have been warned about an evangelical Christian charity collecting aid in Scottish state schools

NEWS 5 December 2017

Revealed: the devastating impact of austerity on mental health

The devastating impact spending cuts and austerity are having on people’s mental health have been laid bare

NEWS 5 December 2017

Health & Social Care

More than a bed for the night – a lifeline for the most vulnerable

Glasgow Winter Night Shelter is a temporary fix to a complex problem, it aims to ensure that the city's most vulnerable have a bed this winter

FEATURE 4 December 2017

Social Justice & Poverty

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