Asylum, Housing and homelessness
Serco loses contract to house asylum seekers in Scotland
Serco has lost a multi-million pound contract to house asylum seekers in Scotland to Mears Group, a UK-wide housing and social care provider.
Karin Goodwin
Asylum, Housing and homelessness, Human rights
Glasgow council probes who knew about refugee eviction plans
Glasgow City Council's auditor is to investigate emails suggesting managers knew that a private company planned to change the locks of asylum seekers' homes.
Asylum, Politics
Revealed: Glasgow council managers knew about plans to evict refugees
Senior managers at Glasgow City Council knew for months about controversial plans to evict hundreds of asylum seekers from their homes, calling into question claims by councillors the council had been "blindsided".
Housing and homelessness, Society
Revealed: Edinburgh’s 466 breaches of homeless B&B law
Edinburgh City Council has broken the law 466 times in the last year by placing homeless families in bed and breakfast accommodation for more than seven days.
Health, Human rights, Society
Prison suicides prompt call for fewer sentences to save lives
There have been more than 58 suicides over the last ten years in Scottish prisons.
Asylum, Human rights
Destitute refugee family win right to rebuild their lives
A refugee couple with two young children, who were facing street homelessness in Scotland after being destitute for almost a decade, have been granted the right to remain in the UK.
Human rights, Society
Searching for answers: Scots struggling to access records on their lives in care
Care charities have called for new guidance to make it easier for those who have been looked after to access their records.
Crime and justice, Human rights
Call to review domestic murders to help prevent further deaths
Scotland must introduce formal reviews on domestic murders to help save lives, according to leading violence against women organisations.
Housing and homelessness
Review promised on Scottish homeless death statistics
Scotland's national records office says it will undertake a review that could see it count the deaths of homeless people for the first time.