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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.
Home Office backs down on refugee eviction policy
The Home Office has confirmed it will reverse a policy change that saw refugees evicted from its asylum accommodation with as little as seven days notice.
How to fix the news switch off? A review of our solutions stories from 2023
What happens when journalists find responses to social issues that might already be working? Should we examine solutions as well as problems?
Risky RAAC concrete now found in 1150 Scottish homes
More than 1,100 affordable homes have been confirmed to have been built with unreliable 'RAAC' concrete.
Campaigners ‘still waiting’ for laws to protect pregnant women from domestic violence
A woman who lost two pregnancies due to domestic abuse is still campaigning for laws to protect pregnant victims of violence more than a year of raising her case in Holyrood.
Disabled refugee family facing eviction over Christmas
A refugee family are due to be evicted from Glasgow asylum accommodation in less than four weeks, and fear they will have nowhere suitable to go.
Homeless crisis sparks call for Scotland to declare ‘national housing emergency’
Charities have called on the Scottish Government to declare a national housing emergency, claiming Scotland’s homeless system is at breaking point.