A five-year plan to help address Glasgow’s housing emergency has been agreed by the local authority. The Strategic Housing Investment Programme (SHIP), which will now be submitted to the Scottish Government, include the council working with Registered Social Landlords to deliver up t...
During the Housing Festival the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) called for action from the Scottish government to address what it sees as a worsening situation across the country. This is reflected in three local authorities: Argyll and Bute, Edinburgh and Glasgow already having declared housin...
'The Scottish government reform programme will develop the means to credibly restore, and further increase GP and wider primary care spend, within the overall health budget. This will be a long-term endeavour but this strategic shift is crucial. Our reform plans over the next period will look ...
This effectively leads to a downplaying both of a holistic approach to health (which is a central tenet of the Scottish government’s own policies) but also a serious neglect of the literature on social impact assessments and related research and HIA literature that address questions of well-...
“The Scottish Government can no longer ignore the country’s housing emergency and must take the urgent action required to address it. With four local authorities having already declared local housing emergencies, alongside today’s figures, what further evidence does the Scottish Government require ...
Data sources: Scottish local government elections Methodology: how we search for monotonicity anomalies Results Discussion: multiwinner versus single-winner anomalies Discussion: close elections Conclusion Data availability Notes References Funding Author information Ethics declarations Additional information Rights ...
The facility, which will start recruiting staff next year, was first proposed in 2016 following an HIV outbreak in Glasgow among people who injected drugs in public places. It’s backed by the Scottish government, although some lawmaker...
the Scottish Government has provided over £240,000 with Balfour Beatty match-funding the scheme. The funding will allow Balfour Beatty to retrofit two gritters and two operations and maintenance vehicles. Once retrofitted, the vehicles will be trialled on the Connect Roads M77/Glasgow Southern Or...
Suffragette literature was found in the neighbourhood and a message was left at the scene that read: ‘no peace till we get the vote. Blame the King and the Government’, the same message left at similar incidents all over the country. [1] The fire was spotted by a nurse at the ...
Homelessness is a growing crisis in Scotland, with over 40,000 applications for assistance made in 2022-23, the highest in over a decade. In May 2024, the Scottish Government declared a housing emergency, responding to the stark need for more affordable and safe housing. At the fo...