Tag: The Scottish Government
Balfour highlights need for Citizens Advice funding
Inadequate funding of local authorities could lead to closure of essential advice services.
Lothians MSP Jeremy Balfour criticised the Scottish Government for the inequality of funding given to local authorities, arguing that Citizen Advice Bureaux...
Coronavirus – today’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced by the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon who addressed parliament ahead of First Minister's...
Coronavirus – today’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced by the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon who held a media briefing along with...
Coronavirus – route out of lockdown will be a cautious one
Today was a big news day for everyone in the country, but the The Scottish Government continues to urge a careful, steady approach to exiting this lockdown.
So for the next few weeks...
Coronavirus – today’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced just ahead of the First Minister delivering a statement to parliament this afternoon....
Coronavirus – revising the strategy to get out of lockdown
On Tuesday afternoon, the First Minister will set out The Scottish Government’s revised strategic framework and outline in broad terms how Scotland will gradually emerge from current lockdown restrictions.
The framework will detail how The...
Coronavirus – today’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced by the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at a media briefing from St Andrew's...
Coronavirus – appointments now announced for the next priority group
Those people who have underlying health conditions and also unpaid carers are beginning to receive Covid-19 vaccination appointments.
Priority group 6 is one of the largest on the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)...
Coronavirus – today’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced.
The statistics in Scotland as at 21 February 2021 are shown below and the...
Coronavirus – today’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced.
The statistics in Scotland as at 20 February 2021 are shown below and the...
Coronavirus – visiting to begin again at care homes in March
The Scottish Government has announced that routine indoor visiting of care home residents by relatives, friends and carers may begin again from early March.
Care providers have been asked to support residents to have...
Coronavirus – today’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced at a media briefing held by Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Chief...
Lothians MSPs continue the fight for answers on the new Eye Pavilion
Sarah Boyack MSP for Lothian continues to campaign for a new Eye Pavilion in Edinburgh. Ahead of a meeting with NHS Lothian on Friday afternoon to discuss the matter further, she spoke to The...
Letter from Scotland
At last the schools are beginning to re-open.
From Monday morning the bell will ring for pupils in the first three years of primary school. Nursery schools too are re-opening. And some senior pupils...
Coronavirus – today’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced at a media briefing held by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Chief Nursing...
UNISON demand fair pay for vaccinators
The Head of Health at UNISON Scotland, Willie Duffy, has written to the Health Secretary, Jeane Freeman, on Wednesday highlighting with her again the inequality of pay which nursing staff who are delivering vaccines...
Coronavirus – government tightens testing rules
The First Minister announced today at Holyrood that there will be a tightening of rules around testing of close contacts from Thursday.
Anyone who is identified as a close contact of someone who has...
Coronavirus – today’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced by the First Minister at Holyrood ahead of First Minister's Questions.
The statistics in...
Coronavirus – today’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced by the First Minister.
The statistics in Scotland as at 16 February 2021 are...
Parliament to debate overhaul of SQA on Wednesday
After the to-ing and fro-ing around exam results last year, it is little surprise that the opposition are reviving an old argument about splitting up Education Scotland and the SQA.
The Scottish Liberal Democrats...
Coronavirus – today’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced.
The statistics in Scotland as at 15 February 2021 are shown below and the...
Coronavirus – today’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced.
The statistics in Scotland as at 14 February 2021 are shown below and the...
Coronavirus – Saturday’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced.
The statistics in Scotland as at 13 February 2021 are shown below and the...
Welcome support for B&B trade
The Scottish Government support announced for B&Bs has been given a warm welcome by SNP MSP Gordon MacDonald.
The lockdown grant funding amounts to £2,000 for every four weeks in lockdown as long as...
Coronavirus – Friday’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced by the Health Secretary Jeane Freeman MSP.
This week is important in the story...
Coronavirus – Thursday’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon who appeared at the daily media briefing along...
Coronavirus – 1 million have now received first dose
The Scottish Government has announced on Wednesday that more than a fifth of the population of Scotland have now received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
69-year-old John Loch from Bearsden was among those...
Coronavirus – Wednesday’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced by the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at Holyrood just ahead of First Minister's...
Coronavirus – Tuesday’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced by the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon along with National Clinical Director, Jason Leitch....
Coronavirus – Monday’s figures
The latest figures detailing the number of people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the last 24 hours in Scotland have been announced.
The statistics in Scotland as at 8 February 2021 are shown below and the...
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