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Social landlords can now use a new online portal to apply to the Scottish Housing Regulator for consents or to report notifiable events, making the process quicker and easier. The new approach follows a period of testing with a group of landlords and replaces the existing process of email and corres

An innovative free course designed to help unemployed people living in the east end of Glasgow learn new skills to help them get back into employment came to an end last week, with those taking part attending a celebration event. ‘Learning Works’ is a pioneering employability course joint funded

Glasgow City Council has approved plans to allow a developer to build 90 new flats at North Kelvin Meadow but has also given volunteers a chance to preserve the “community-created” green space. The meadows were council-run football pitches and tennis courts that fell into disrepair in the early

Sarah MacFdyen By Sarah Macfadyen, policy manager at Crisis

A council advertising campaign aimed at tackling the issue of rent arrears is underway in East Dunbartonshire. The campaign, which poses the question ‘Up to your ears in rent arrears?’, will run on local buses and newspapers for the next three weeks.

Scottish housing and care provider Bield is highlighting the important role that volunteers can play in assisting older people to enjoy happy and fulfilled lives in West Lothian. Bield's Blackfauld's Court in Fauldhouse and Ochilview Court in Armadale are looking for Social Activity Coordinators to

Our sister publication Scottish Construction Now attracted 30,544 unique visitors to its website in January – a record monthly figure for the site. It brings the number of people to have visited the site to over 221,000 since its launch in October 2014.

Scottish Churches Housing Action returns to the Homeless Spotlight to highlight Aid & Abet, its peer mentoring for people leaving prison to live in Edinburgh & Lothian. “Poachers turned gamekeepers are very useful allies,” says Bruce Budge, mentoring co-ordinator with a new project based

Moray Council has dropped plans to put up council tax by 18 per cent after local authorities were told they could face sanctions if they did not agree to the Scottish Government's freeze. The authority's ruling administration initially said the move to increase council tax was necessary to protect f

Nicola Barclay Assuming the position of chief executive of home building industry body Homes for Scotland today, Nicola Barclay has set out the plan of action she has identified as necessary for tackling the country’s housing crisis which sees 160,000 on waiting lists and many others struggling to

The Scottish Housing Regulator is to continue its statutory appointment of a manager to support Wellhouse Housing Association complete its governance and financial improvement plan and consolidate recent progress. A manager was appointed to the Easterhouse landlord in December 2014 after an independ

Lesley Laird A vote by Scotland’s local authorities to reject the package of measures put forward for Scottish local government takes relationships to a new low, according to Fife Council.

The current work-related benefits system should be replaced with a new basic income guarantee to ensure work always pays, according to Reform Scotland. The think-tank said the benefits system should protect the unemployed and under-employed but at the same time must reduce or remove any disincentive

Dr David Smith Over ninety per cent of landlords have received no information from the UK government on their new legal duty to check the immigration status of their tenants.

East Lothian Housing Association (ELHA) has re-launched its website to include a range of revolutionary new services allowing tenants to manage their own housing affairs digitally. From today the dedicated ‘My Home’ area of elha.com affords tenants the opportunity to manage their tenancy, rent a