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The embattled Universal Credit system still needs "fundamental reform" in spite of funding concessions by Chancellor Philip Hammond in yesterday's Budget, charities have said. Mr Hammond yesterday announced "additional measures worth £1 billion over five years" to support the transition to Universa

Cllr Kate Campbell A regeneration project at Granton Waterfront will take a step forward next month when the City of Edinburgh Council will begin an intensive six month period of public engagement into plans to deliver a vibrant, well connected, new city quarter.

Almond Housing Association invited community engagement officer Barbara Boertien to officially reopen the Riverside Community Wing after its £20,000 renovation.

West Lothian Council has confirmed the completion of more than 100 homes at Kirkhill in Broxburn, one of the largest council housing sites in Scotland.

Jon Turner Link Group has named Jon Turner as its new chief executive officer with effect from January 2019.

Scottish Ministers are recruiting two new members to the Scottish Housing Regulator’s Board to replace members whose terms will end in March 2019. George Walker, chair of the Scottish Housing Regulator, said: “This is an excellent opportunity to influence the shape of social housing regulation.

Sally Thomas The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has said that a House of Commons committee’s report into the “unacceptable” hardship caused by Universal Credit echoes many of its own concerns with the policy.

Members of Angus Housing Association with DJ Laing Homes managing director, Karen Nicoll Angus Housing Association and DJ Laing Homes marked the latest stage in their partnership building new homes for rent when they handed over the keys to a new 3 bedroom home in Carnoustie to a delighted new tenan

Susan Napier People can look forward to benefitting from high quality housing and care services provided by Bield for long into the future, according to its chair.

An Edinburgh man details how a Winter Care Shelter, run by homelessness charity Bethany Christian Trust, helped him break out the cycle of homelessness and saved his life from last year’s winter weather.

Getting into the spirit of the event are Unite union student accommodation officers (clockwise from bottom) Libby Stephenson, Kerry Watson, Jennifer Finley and Sophie Bayliss One hundred supporters of homelessness charity the Rock Trust slept out in Edinburgh’s St Andrew Square Gardens with nothin

Rodney Whyte By Rodney Whyte, partner and property and planning specialist at law firm Pinsent Masons

Transformational change in health and social care is not being achieved in part due to the leadership in the organisations set up to deliver integration not exercising the powers given to them, according to new report. There are 31 integration authorities across Scotland, bringing together NHS and l

Nile Istephan Nile Istephan and Ewan Aitken are among a group of experts from the private and third sectors to have been appointed to a Regional Enterprise Council (REC) by the Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal.

CALA Homes (West) has revealed a number of “significant” community benefits from its development at North Bar, Erskine, including a proposed new bus service. The homebuilder’s proposals represent a major investment in the long-term future of the area with the creation of 195 new terraced, semi