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Home care protestors defiant after meeting chaos

A disabled Kinghorn resident was among the campaigners who interrupted a Fife Council meeting last week by chaining themselves to the public chamber.
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Crackdown on human traffickingCrackdown on human trafficking

The largest ever UK-wide police crackdown against human trafficking has resulted in 35 suspects being arrested in Scotland.

Operation Pentameter 2, launched in October 2007, saw 351 individuals dealt with as victims of human trafficking throughout the UK with 59 of them in Scotland.

Scots workers ‘are happiest staff in the UK’

Scottish workers are among the happiest in the UK, it was claimed today. A survey from Clydesdale Bank, looking at attitudes to work within Small and Medium Enterprises, has revealed that well over a third admit that their enjoyment of work has increased.
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The mental health units that shame the NHS

Millions have been spent on the NHS since Labour pledged to reform it 10 years ago - so why does the incoming president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists think the state of some wards is so dire that he would not let his own family use them? Social affairs correspondent Amelia Hill reports.
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Premier admits lack of progress on child poverty

Gordon Brown last night admitted the Labour Government had not done enough to tackle child poverty in Britain since coming to power in 1997 but he insisted the slow progress would not make him "retreat" from the target of halving the problem by 2010.
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