Covid-19

Everyone who provides social care will have access to appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) under new arrangements announced by health secretary Jeane Freeman.

The City of Edinburgh Council has been establishing new ways of working and adapting its planning service to support communities and businesses throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

More than one million items of lifesaving PPE have been delivered to care homes across the UK - including several in Scotland - thanks to the swift action of rapid response specialists. A total of 525,000 surgical masks, 500,000 disposable aprons, and 10,000 litres of sanitiser have been sourced and

Care home workers in Edinburgh are being offered specialist support as they deal with unusually high death rates prompted by COVID-19.

New advice to support RSL governing body members in their work during the coronavirus pandemic has been published by the Scottish Housing Regulator. Covering questions which governing body members have asked the Regulator, the advice includes what to do if a governing body is unable to meet, if memb

As staff across the Kingdom Group adjust to new ways of working to ensure they deliver vital services to tenants and customers, Bill Banks highlights the great work that different teams are doing in these challenging times.

Housebuilder Persimmon has followed Taylor Wimpey in announcing plans to start reopening sites but like its rival, this will not be applicable to Scotland just yet.

Taylor Wimpey has become the first big housebuilder to announce its return to business with the majority of its construction sites in England and Wales planned to open from May 4. The firm, which announced the closure of its sites, show homes and sales centres on March 24, laid out its planning and

Leading players in Scotland’s property industry have joined forces to demand government action to protect jobs and ensure the nation’s housing market can recover strongly from the coronavirus crisis.

HouseMark’s director of data and business intelligence, Arturo Dell, discusses cyber security in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

South Lanarkshire Council volunteers in their hundreds have been working for weeks to provide vital services across the region to those classed as vulnerable or at risk. Operating from hubs in local secondary schools, a seven-day rota is in place to ensure foods, medicines, and often PPE, are delive

Charities have reacted with alarm at reports that more than 300 men and women seeking asylum in Glasgow have been moved out of apartments and into hotels where they are worried that they can’t practice social distancing.

This week, Martin Gavin, Homeless Network Scotland’s head of external relations, looks at the impact of COVID-19 on people who take drugs and what can be learned from what has been put in place so far. Across the UK innovative and pragmatic examples of policy adapting to necessity are surfacin

CIH Scotland, Homes for Good and the Scottish Association of Landlords (SAL) have jointly published guidance for the private rented sector on how to support tenants and protect rental income during the coronavirus outbreak.

Age Scotland has called for a redoubling of efforts to protect care home residents as the latest figures reveal that 537 have died as a result of COVID-19.