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The Scottish Child Payment is now being received by the families of more than 300,000 children and young people, according to official statistics. New figures show that 303,000 children were receiving the payment at the end of March.

Cala Homes (West) has made a cash donation to a major Scottish-born charity to help with its efforts to end homelessness across the city. Following Cala’s first donation of £2,000 at the start of the pandemic, the West of Scotland region is gifting a further £3,000 to Social Bite,

Statutory consumer body Consumer Scotland has published the report of the Scottish Energy Insights and Coordination Group (SEIC) which urges more support for energy consumers.  SEIC was convened by Consumer Scotland following the former First Minister’s energy summit in August 2022, held

The £300 million transformation of Candleriggs Square in Glasgow’s Merchant City has reached another significant development milestone with the completion of structural work for a 346-apartment build-to-rent (BTR) complex, forward funded by Legal & General. Candleriggs Development 2

An in-principle agreement has been reached with housing developers on the removal of unsafe cladding from buildings, the Scottish Government has said.

Age Scotland is calling on local authorities to provide a ‘one-stop shop’ to help older people adapt their homes for later life after new research found that the available services across the country are fragmented, inflexible and difficult to navigate. A new report “Making Adaptat

The Scottish Government is consulting on measures that will save businesses time and money by making it easier to install renewable energy equipment.

Elderpark Housing has appointed established property maintenance business Timetra as its new reactive repairs contractor. The company will take over the reactive repairs contract from June 1.

The complex nature of Scotland’s land ownership along with a variety of sometimes unworkable title deeds and various legislative introductions over the past two decades has meant that more than ever organisations must ensure they have competent and knowledgeable factoring teams who can provide

Bob McIntosh, the tenant farming commissioner, explores upcoming changes to the standards for agricultural housing. Scottish Ministers have clearly signalled that they would like a whole-sector approach to standards for rented housing – aligning not only the private and social rented sectors b

Property developer and asset manager Sovereign Centros has secured approval from Glasgow City Council for its outline masterplan proposals for the reimagination of St. Enoch Centre in Glasgow, which includes up to 917 homes and a four-star hotel.

A planning application to build 20 apartments and a convenience store on the site of a disused Glasgow pub has been rejected.

Glasgow-based energy services firm Union Technical has commenced work to retrofit more than 300 homes in Dumfries. Work has begun this week on a £1.5 million upgrade of the four-in-a-block sandstone flats at the town’s Sandside Estate, which were constructed in the 1930s.

Foster Evans looks at the Scottish housing review post-Grenfell, and what Scotland can learn from the tragedy. On 16 June 2017, 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire. The primary cause was the spread of fire caused by external cladding, which was only installed to stop the building being an &lsq

Scotland’s Housing Network (SHN) has joined in partnership with Scotland’s local authorities to manage Scotland’s Housing Options Toolkit. As a result, SHN has appointed Leza Lafferty as learning/development officer and as the main contact for the new Housing Options Toolkit.