Church of Scotland charity Crossreach takes the skills and techniques used at a residential school for children
in care and puts them into practice in north Glasgow’s deprived communities.
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.
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