Search: Child poverty action plan welcome but more affordable homes required, says CIH Scotland

Apprentices at City Building have renovated FAREPlay Stepford interiors, the home of Easterhouse Football Academy, as part of a project designed to help them grow their skills and contribute to local communities.

The Housing Ombudsman has ordered Sage Homes to conduct an independent review which found failings in Sage Home’s approach to addressing vulnerabilities and safeguarding concerns. The review followed an Ombudsman investigation that found the landlord failed to adequately address a residents&rs

More than 456,000 people are due to receive inter Heating Payments totalling £26.8 million this winter, social justice secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville will tell MSPs today. Updating the Scottish Parliament on support with fuel costs for people on low incomes, Ms Somerville will confirm the S

Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards is giving away £120,000 as part of its annual 12 Days of Giving Christmas campaign. For 12 days in the lead-up to Christmas, the specialist financial services group is giving £1,000 to ten charities each day - with 120 charities in total be

A community in the southside of Glasgow is clean and green thanks to a nursery school, Glasgow City Council and Wheatley Homes Glasgow.

Community Land Scotland has responded to claims that its suggestion that people should have the Right to Live in a community to which they have an established connection is impractical and could clash with existing legislation. Last month, the charity called on politicians to establish a ‘Righ

A call for young people to have a legal right to live in the community where they grew up is impractical and could clash with existing legislation, according to Holmes Mackillop director Craig Donnelly. Earlier this month, Community Land Scotland called on politicians to establish a 'Right to Live'

North Lanarkshire Council is to build on its proactive partnership approach to tackling domestic abuse with the launch of a new Domestic Abuse Digital Directory, enhancing support for victims and survivors across the region.

An award-winning Glasgow-based charity that supports pregnant women in difficult circumstances has secured funding to grow its dedicated team of volunteers, following a year-on-year surge in demand for its vital interpretation and companionship services.

Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership has appointed Pat Togher as its new chief officer. Pat is currently chief officer for the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board (EIJB) and Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP).  Prior to that, he was assistant chief officer at Glasgow's HSCP.

The number of households facing homelessness in England is the highest since records began, according to new UK Government figures.

North Ayrshire Council is working with staff in secondary schools to ensure parents are accessing welfare benefits they are entitled to. Over the past two years, Welfare Rights Officer Audrey Ritchie has been offering parents and carers free, impartial, and confidential benefits advice and she has h

A Wheatley Homes Glasgow housing officer is running the Paisley 10K in memory of his twin boys. Euan MacLean is hoping to raise £1000 for SANDS – the stillbirth and neonatal death charity – and mark what would have been the first birthday of his sons, Sorley and Ruadh.

Clyde Valley Housing Association (CVHA) is thrilled to announce the launch of a new partnership with Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, bringing the joy of reading to children in the rural community of Douglas. Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is an acclaimed book gifting program that mails

Thompsons Solicitors is representing social housing tenants who are seeking damages after prolonged exposure to black mould. Claire Campbell, a partner at the firm, is handling 81 such cases. More than 90 per cent of the cases relate to tenants in housing association properties. Around a third live