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Two Scottish care workers struck off every week
Some 300 workers caring for Scotland’s most vulnerable people have been struck off for inappropriate, abusive and sometimes criminal behaviour in a three year period.
Psychic healer charges almost £900 to treat ‘disease’ and trauma at Edinburgh event
A psychic healer, previously convicted for claiming he can cure cancer, is holding an event in Edinburgh which he claims will “transform lives”.
New hopes to reverse island depopulation as school saved from closure
A council decision not to shut an island's only primary school gives locals more time to action their depopulation plans.
Claim Labour’s 2019 manifesto called for ‘abortion on demand to birth’ is False
The former Conservative MP - now sitting as an independent - made a claim about Labour's abortion policy in 2019.
Sheku Bayoh: The Inquiry podcast – Hot to touch
Episode seven of our Sheku Bayoh: The Inquiry podcast – Hot to touch – contains some startling revelations about policing both back in 2015 and today.
Mark Fortune: MSP calls for ‘proper investigation’ into ‘abusive’ treatment of tenant
An MSP has urged the Scottish Government and Edinburgh council to open a “proper investigation” after a tenant was allegedly threatened over rent payments.
Councils spent £200m on profit-making residential care providers for children and young people
Scottish councils have given up to £200m to private firms to provide residential care for children and young people, despite promising to move away from the practice four years ago.
Mark Fortune: Edinburgh landlord filmed allegedly threatening tenant
Edinburgh landlord Mark Fortune physically threatened a tenant and warned he would shut off his flat’s gas and electricity, secretly filmed footage shows.
Questions raised over £2m spent by ‘quango’ charged with care system reform
The organisation overseeing Scotland’s children’s care system reform – The Promise – has spent almost a third of its budget on external costs.