Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ITV News' Vanessa Taaffe gives a special report on Scotland's worsening housing crisis, which is set to play a big part in the ...

Scotland's ruling political group, the Scottish National Party (SNP), has proposed another series of laws that aim to shore up protection for transgendered people, including a ban on conversion ...

Scotland became the first nation in the United Kingdom to incorporate the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law when provisions of the incorporation act went ...

The Scottish Government has introduced a 5-year strategy for delivering top-class cancer care for children and young people. The strategy named 'Collaborative and Compassionate Cancer Care: Cancer ...

The Scottish Government has confirmed an increase to the Child Winter Heating Payment, a one-off financial support aimed at helping disabled children and young people cope with seasonal energy costs.

Scotland’s only gender clinic for minors is formally pausing the prescription of puberty blockers and hormone medications that are designed to facilitate gender transitions for children after a review ...

According to recent research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), Scotland is on course to drastically reduce child poverty, defying the trend of rising rates throughout the United Kingdom. By ...

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