The vaccine roll-out appears to be little more than a trickle in West Lothian. Despite weeks of empty rhetoric and talk of targets being met, we are hearing daily of vulnerable people who have yet to…
I'm sitting watching the First Minister announce, for what are sensible and scientifically justifiable reasons, that we will still be in lockdown until the end of February. That means that…
Edinburgh Western MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton questioned the Cabinet Secretary for Health today at Parliament about when we can expect the move in to the new Sick Kids Hospital to be completed. Today, she…
I found it really chilling recently to see that a survey had found that many disabled people in Scotland were more worried about their mental health deteriorating than catching…
“Why should we have to move everywhere and everything because of him?” That question is on the front of Change, Justice, Fairness, a Scottish Women’s Aid community research project into homelessness…
Forty percent of children and young people referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Scotland are waiting over 18 weeks for treatment, according to new figures from Public Health…
The Liberal Democrats are asking people across our community who care for relatives to get in touch and share their story – to mark national Carers Rights Day. Liberal Democrat party leader Ed Davey…
“We hope that nobody has been excluded.” These seven words from our Prime Minister angered me probably more than any others since Coronavirus took over our lives. Boris Johnson was responding…
As we try to adapt to our latest layer of restrictions, I find myself questioning the basis for them as well as the wisdom behind them. If there is evidence that hospitality settings are spreading…
When the Spaces for People fund was announced with much fanfare in April of this year, I felt it was a small silver lining to the horrendous events that were unfolding across the world. Here at last…
