Row erupts over firm’s briefings to MPs on asylum seeker housing
Organisations supporting asylum seekers have expressed concerns for the well-being of asylum seekers moved from flats into hotels in Glasgow.
Lawyers threaten to sue Strathclyde Pension Fund over equal pay retirement funds
Lawyers representing thousands of women who secured the largest equal pay settlement in Scottish history are planning legal action against Strathclyde Pension Fund over delays to ensuring the payout is reflected in their retirement income.
Police did not protect ‘terrified’ refugees at protest from far right attacks, organisers claim
Refugee organisers of a Glasgow protest in support of asylum-seekers have accused Police Scotland of failing to adequately protect them against far-right groups on the rampage.
‘Families are drowning’: urgent calls made for child maintenance payments to be enforced
The UK government must step in to prevent single parent families “drowning in poverty” because their child maintenance payments have stopped in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been claimed.
Call for probe after man found dead in Covid-19 asylum seeker hotel
A 30-year-old Syrian man died after moving to a hotel used by the Home Office to house asylum seekers amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Asylum seekers’ lives ‘put at risk’ by decision to move them to hotels
Hundreds of asylum seekers have been moved out of their flats and into Glasgow hotels where they are unable to isolate amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Calls to help drug users access services in Covid-19 crisis
Calls are growing for people with drug addictions to get urgent access to life-saving treatment and prescriptions to help them self-isolate during the pandemic.
Crucial services to disabled people cut due to coronavirus pandemic
Care packages for disabled people have been suspended with immediate affect due to staff pressures resulting from the coronavirus epidemic.
Homeless ‘should be housed in hotels’ to protect them from Covid-19
Street homeless people must be urgently accommodated in hotels in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to those working to support them.