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A pilot project has been hailed a success for helping homeless people to turn their lives around and find homes that meets their needs. The Housing First Renfrewshire initiative, a partnership between Renfrewshire Council and Turning Point Scotland, has over the last 12 months supported 10 local peo

Brian Moran, area lettings director for Your Move, has been appointed to the board of the Association of Residential Lettings Agents (ARLA). The move means the UK professional and regulatory body for lettings agents will have a representative for Scotland for the first time.

Tenants at a retirement housing development in West Lothian have gone for gold at a popular local sporting event for care services, the CANalympics. The energetic team from Bield’s Ochilview Court, in Armadale, participated in the event, which is now in its fifth year and is run by the West Lothia

A new programme aimed at preventing homelessness and reoffending by newly released young offenders was launched in Scotland on Wednesday. Young offenders aged 16-21 in HM Young Offenders Institute Polmont will benefit from the expertise of advisors from housing and homelessness charity Shelter Scotl

CIH Scotland is seeking input from its members on how they think new powers in the Scotland Bill can improve social security in Scotland. The Scottish Parliament’s Welfare Reform Committee has launched a call for evidence on the practical implementation of powers relating to social security covere

Angus Robertson Amendments to the Scotland Bill which would effectively give the Scottish Parliament the power to design its own welfare system have been rejected by the UK government.

Julia Unwin A new report has called for an increase in the supply of affordable homes to aid the struggles of vulnerable and working poor people to make ends meet as austerity continues to hit.

Michael Cameron The Scottish Housing Regulator has made more information available about how it assesses risk in registered social landlords (RSLs) and local authorities in the latest reports in its new ‘How we work’ series.

Say it with flowers……. Amy, one of the people to benefit from the scheme, (left) with her supervisor Lynn in the florists shop Teenagers in Glasgow have been given a new jobs boost after Glen Oaks Housing Association revealed it is to continue its successful partnership with a charity to offer w

Council tenants in North Lanarkshire can inform, get involved and help improve housing services by commenting on a new draft strategy for Tenant Participation. North Lanarkshire Council’s five year plan - 'Inform, Involve, Improve' - puts tenants and customers at the heart of service delivery and

Scotland is well on track to having 500 Living Wage-accredited employers by March 2016 as a further milestone was reached yesterday. Riverside Cottage Nursery in Bathgate has been confirmed as the 250th accredited employer on the same day that Dumfries and Galloway Council was confirmed as the secon

Margaret Burgess A national approach to homelessness prevention has been praised for contributing towards a sixth consecutive annual fall in the number of people who are homeless.

Statistics providing information on lets made by Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) in 2014-15 have been released by Scotland’s Chief Statistician. The yearly report shows that single adult households accounted for 37.2 per cent of all new lets. Another 20.5 per cent of households were single pare

An Edinburgh homeless charity has warned that vital services in the city are being closed or cut back because of a reduction in funding from the council. In a briefing document issued to its staff, Streetwork stated that the City of Edinburgh Council has cut about £200,000 of funding from the organ

EVH has announced that it has received 11 nominations this year for its prestigious Helen McGregor Award. Sponsored by Cunninghame Housing Association, the award recognises the outstanding contributions that individuals make to social employers’ boards, all in a voluntary capacity.