Much of the media swallowed the recent line from the Scottish Government about the reduction in the 56,609 homeless applications in Scotland, down 4.9% from 2007.
PARENT CHOICE: Should schools be required to ensure that teachers are specialists? A father’s crusade has won widespread backing, but headteachers say the idea is unworkable.
THE Commissioner for Children and Young People Kathleen Marshall, and the head of a national charity which campaigns for young people in local authority care, have expressed outrage after a council voted to mothball a £1.1m centre to support care leavers.
MY grandmother had a great fear of the workhouse, even after it was abolished. The workhouse was part of a Poor Law that condemned the unemployed. In the workhouse, they had to work for their keep on meaningless tasks such as breaking stones.
LESLEY MORRISON
Health care in Scotland
is a decade behind education in terms of providing quality services to young people in care, experts have warned.
Recovering drug users are used to hostile attitudes. But should they have to face stigma from the very services that are meant to help them? Stephen Naysmith reports
Bob Holman on a class divide: Years ago, when I was appointed a professor, I discovered that I was entitled to travel first class on trains and the dearest seats on planes. I never took advantage and have never gone first class from then until now.
Experts are set to warn that the dangerous illegal drug crystal meth could rapidly make inroads in Scotland, with devastating effects on the physical, mental and sexual health of those who abuse it.
Lilias Graham died on August 15 at the age of 91. Most of today’s welfare workers will not have heard of her but she was a social work giant.
From an affluent background, her Christian beliefs called her to be a lowly paid church worker.
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