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All British domestic energy suppliers have today signed up to an updated Code of Practice that will ban the forced installation of prepayment meters (PPMs) in the homes of people over the age of 85.

Lloyds Banking Group and homelessness charity Crisis have joined forces in a new two-year partnership to help tackle the shortage of good quality, affordable homes in Great Britain, which is leaving hundreds of thousands of people trapped in homelessness.

Homebuilder Persimmon has partnered with Kingdom Housing Association to deliver new affordable homes in Kirkcaldy. Seventy-six high-quality, affordable new homes will help local people in housing need, following the completion of a project on Persimmon’s Rosslyn Gait development in Kirkcaldy,

Ann Leslie, the chief executive of LAR Housing Trust and a former partner at MacRoberts, has been appointed to the board of Historic Environment Scotland. Historic Environment Scotland is the lead body for the historic environment in Scotland and is an executive non-departmental public body (NDPB) d

A new digital map aimed at boosting awareness of projects helping to prevent homelessness in Scotland and beyond has been launched by the charity Crisis. The interactive map, covering projects around the UK, allows service providers and policy-makers to search for and explore work being done across

The number of people in Scotland living in very deep poverty has increased dramatically in the last 20 years despite more people, particularly children and pensioners, being pulled out of poverty overall, new JRF research has found.

Social workers in Scotland are ‘leaving in their droves’, according to a new social care policy brief from Scotland’s largest trade union body. In its report: ‘Undervalued, underpaid and leaving in droves: The crisis in Scotland’s adult social care workforce', the Scott

Strengthened national guidance on visiting has improved residents’ quality of life, health secretary Michael Matheson was told by staff and residents at a care home in Greenock. The Health and Social Care Standards, which came into force last April, gave people living in care homes rights to s

Connect Modular, part of modular construction solutions provider The Wee House Group, has delivered the first six amenity blocks to the Clinterty Travelling Persons site in Aberdeen.

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has welcomed proposals to enable councils to raise the amount of council tax paid on empty and second homes in a bid to increase affordable housing supply. First Minister Humza Yousaf announced the joint COSLA proposals at the Scottish

Blackwood Homes and Care has appointed finance professional Heather Duncan to the newly created role of director of finance and strategic partnerships. Heather joined the independent living specialists in 2018 and this will be her third role within the organisation, having previously been finance ma

Eildon Housing Association hosted an Open Afternoon event on Friday 14 April 2023 to showcase its latest major affordable housing development on the former Coopersknowe site in Galashiels.

Harbour Homes has demonstrated its commitment to sustainability by adopting the Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing (SRS).

A care home developer has failed in its bid to overturn a decision to reject its plans for a 66-bed care home on the site of a former bowling and tennis club in Glasgow. Northcare (Scotland) Ltd submitted a second bid in October to replace Anniesland Bowling and Tennis Club at Helensburgh Drive with

Responsible finance provider Social Investment Scotland (SIS) is inviting leaders from Scotland’s social enterprise and third sector to join a new coaching initiative designed to develop Scotland’s circular economy. Funded by Zero Waste Scotland, Circular Economy 360+ is a programme of o