Covid-19

Wheatley Group has helped hundreds of families in Glasgow enjoy a happier Easter as staff from Glasgow Housing Association (GHA), Cube and Loretto Housing distributed hundreds of chocolate eggs to people in their communities. Cube environmental staff bought more than 500 chocolate eggs and deli

To mark its fourth week of working from home/lockdown, Homes for Good has launched its own Homes for Good Heroes awards which will be presented fortnightly during the current crisis and monthly after that. The first Hero to be nominate

Paul Brown and Ben Christman from the Legal Services Agency (LSA) discuss the impact of the current public health emergency on human rights.

Eleven iPads have been donated to Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership care homes throughout the city to help residents to stay in touch with family and friends. Danny Brown from technology company Zonal had the idea to reach out to the Partnership to see h

A Dundee charity has embarked on a tour of Tayside, delivering a ‘Hope Box’ to almost 50 households. Front Lounge and Abertay Travel teamed up to deliver the arts and crafts boxes to young families and single people struggling with isolation during the COVID-19 lockdown.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has reminded RSLs to be on their guard against incidents of fraud as criminals seek to take advantage of coronavirus working practices. After writing to RSLs in December to highlight different types of fraud and the steps social landlords can take to help protect their

Scottish Women’s Aid (SWA) and CIH Scotland have published new guidance for social landlords to assist them in responding robustly to domestic abuse as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

Blairtummock Housing Association has been awarded £2,000 from the STV Children’s Appeal fund to help provide financial assistance to its tenants. The money, which Blairtummock will match fund, will allow the Association to provide small sums of money to tenants who are in crisi

The Scottish Government has announced that it will make around £220 million of further grants available for businesses - including the recently self-employed - to help them deal with the ongoing impact of the coronavirus outbreak. The new package of measures includes £120m to extend the

Dundee City Council has issued a request to the construction sector for any excess Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that may be available for purchase.

Legal Services Agency trainee solicitor Shaun McPhee discusses the effect of COVID-19 on housing law. The Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020 is now law. It brings major changes to housing law and practice, which will impact a large number of tenants for the foreseeable future. The emergency provisions

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has launched a new national advice helpline to boost the network’s service during the coronavirus crisis and beyond.

Social care staff are to receive an immediate 3.3% pay increase backdated from April 1. Health secretary Jeane Freeman made the promise during a coronavirus briefing last week, saying that social care employee’s work “is always hugely valued, and never more so than now.”

Vulnerable families across Scotland are receiving extra help to combat the coronavirus crisis by Wheatley Group. Housing and care staff from Dumfries and Galloway to Fife, and Dumbarton to Leith, are tapping into Wheatley’s new £50,000 Emergency Response Fund. It is part of the group&rsq

Chartered accountant and business advisory firm Anderson Anderson & Brown LLP (AAB) has been collaborating with the Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) to deliver a series of webinars aimed at helping businesses to mitigate the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. (from left) Graem