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SeAscape is the shortened “user friendly” name for our charity – South Ayrshire Escape from Homelessness Limited. Since 1999 we have been helping people in South Ayrshire who are homeless or in housing need. We started by providing a rent deposit guarantee scheme – this helps people who need

South Ayrshire has a shortage of bedsits, studios and one-bedroom units, and landlords are uncomfortable with joint tenancies, according to a homelessness charity operating in the area.

Gowrie Care is a registered charity who aim to improve the quality of the life of everyone we work with. We work throughout Scotland, offer varying levels of support to people in different settings, but in each case we are there to make a difference to people and support them to live their life.

Hello my name is William Young and I am staying at South Fort Street in Edinburgh. I want to let you know a bit about me, I am 42 years old and I have been homeless from 18 years old. I have had my own places and been married for 10 years but all that ended and I became homeless. I have been in a lo

Jim Eadie A Holyrood committee is to ask the Scottish Housing Regulator to take forward work to deliver a range of improvements to its operations and to provide evidence on progress.

Christine Macleod A new and wide-ranging programme of national thematic inquiries has been announced by the Scottish Housing Regulator.

Neil Cooney Teachers, nurses and police officers in Aberdeen could be given the chance to jump the council house waiting list in a new initiative aimed at tackling the city’s public sector staff crisis.

The Living Wage Foundation, in partnership with Poverty Alliance, has announced that Waverley Housing has been accredited as a Living Wage employer. The Living Wage is an hourly rate set independently and updated annually and is calculated according to the basic cost of living using the ‘Minimum I

Chancellor George Osborne has been urged to specify exactly how he plans to cut £12 billion from welfare spending by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Responding to this week’s budget, Paul Johnson, director of the independent forecaster, said only £2bn of these £12bn cuts have been outli

A service which helps young runaways and their families has had a funding boost of over £645,000 from to the Big Lottery Fund. The Dundee-based service, run by Shelter Scotland and Relationships Scotland, helped over 180 young people and their families since its launch in 2011.

Alex Neil Detailed information on the scale and reach of social security benefits to be devolved to Scotland has been published.

People living in a Motherwell sheltered housing complex are feeling much brighter thanks to a new range of energy efficient lights.The project at Kerr Grieve Court is part of a drive by North Lanarkshire Council to make council homes and communal areas more energy efficient.

A day care centre in Milngavie has cooked up an innovative service that allows people with any form of memory impairment to have an enjoyable dining experience with their friends and family. Oakburn Park Day Care, run by care and housing provider Bield, has seen huge demand for ‘Wee Betty’s Bist

The Supreme Court has criticised the UK government’s benefit cap for breaching international law on the rights of children but has declined to overturn the controversial policy. Judges at the UK’s most senior court declared that the benefit cap, which restricts unemployed claimants to £500 a we

Philip Hogg Scotland’s home building industry has welcomed Chancellor George Osborne’s introduction of a new Help to Buy ISA to assist those saving for their first property but warned it would be of little use north of the border unless there is help to build the homes that are needed in the fir