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Ambitious plans to put technology to work in care and healthcare were launched yesterday by Dundee Health & Social Care Partnership (DHSCP). The launch comes during Digital Health & Care Week and is one of a series of events around Scotland.

Image courtesy of the Rock Trust Kezia Dugdale, who is appearing on this year’s I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! series, is to donate her MSP salary to the Rock Trust, which supports young people at risk of or affected by homelessness in Scotland.

Housing convenor Evelyn Tweed (left) with cabinet secretary for communities, social security and equalities, Angela Constance Stirling Council’s plans to develop over 700 new affordable homes over the coming five years have been highlighted to the Scottish Government.

(from left) George Webster, chief executive at Almond, Joanna van den Berg from Firefly Arts, Julie-Anne Waddell, business education teacher at West Lothian Council, and Carla Brown representing Forest Bank Community Centre Almond Housing Association has made a £2,000 donation to a community drama

Lintel Trust’s annual fundraising music event is back. This time celebrating the decades that style forgot. Look out your flares, platforms, neon brights and leg warmers in preparation to dance the night away to 70s and 80s music provided by some of Scottish housing's finest musical talent includi

Heating installation specialist Ecoliving, part of the Glasgow-based Turner Group, is making £3 million available to support social landlords in the fight against fuel poverty. The timing of the announcement coincides with the opening to applications of the second round of funding from the £150m W

(from left) Fife Council lead professional Bill Dewar, Rev Alan Kimmitt, Barbara Whiting Fife Council lead professional and Martha Maclachlan energy promotion and development officer during a public exhibition of the plans earlier this year A project to provide heating for homes and businesses in Gl

Martin Armstrong A major international study into how world-class organisations engage with customers is being launched by Wheatley Group.

Councillor Roddy McCuish, ACHA’s company secretary and Iona MacPhail, ACHA’s regional manager with the staff and children from Soroba Nursery at the launch of the lease extension Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has extended leases for five years to two community organisations in the

Queens Cross Housing Association’s chief executive, Shona Stephen, reflects on the links between housing and health. Medical professionals have been making links between the impact housing has on health since Victorian times.

(from left) Lisa-Marie Brown, Cordale housing officer; the P3 children from Renton Primary School and Cordale maintenance officer Alec Drain outside the site of the new Cordale office on their estate inspection Cordale Housing Association was delighted to welcome 16 Primary 3 pupils from Renton Prim

CCG (Scotland) Ltd is preparing for further growth after reporting a strong year with turnover exceeding £134 million – up 18% on 2016’s figures. Profit before taxation at the Glasgow-based construction and manufacturing group also significantly increased on the previous year to over £4.3m.

Barratt Homes has started work to deliver a new community on the site of the former Scottish Power headquarters in Cathcart, Glasgow. The Riverside @ Cathcart development is set to include apartments, homes and expansive green spaces.

McCarthy & Stone has secured planning permission for an assisted living development at Links Road in Prestwick. Designed by Holmes Miller, the four storey building contains 69 independent living flats with common facilities including dining and kitchen.

Garrion People’s Housing Co-operative has appointed CCG Asset Management to a window replacement contract for a further 40 properties throughout South Lanarkshire. The announcement follows the success of the first contract which saw CCG replace windows in 40 properties in Wishaw during the summer.