Claim Glasgow City Council put up posters of ‘high risk’ areas for sexual assault is False

Posters appeared on social media purporting to be from the local authority, but they are fake.

Ferret Journalists Jul 20, 2026

Society

School absence rates are reaching crisis point. How can we help young people facing ‘extreme’ social isolation?

Academics are raising concerns that an increasing percentage of young people, unable to cope with school, are withdrawing into their bedrooms, while families claim support is “woefully inadequate”.

Claire Prentice Jul 19, 2026

Human rights

Children in care die at twice the rate of others. Why are so few of their deaths reviewed?

A disproportionate number of children and young people growing up in care are dying prematurely, prompting calls for preventative action.

Karin Goodwin Jul 16, 2026

Akbar Mir

2 articles

Society

Lives on hold: meet the people existing in Edinburgh’s homeless hostels

Sitting on a scrap of beach looking over Edinburgh’s Firth of Forth – a no-man’s land that is

Karin Goodwin Aug 30, 2018

Society

Family accused of providing ‘substandard’ homeless accommodation paid £15m

A family business running homeless bed and breakfasts (B&Bs) and hostels in Edinburgh that have attracted repeated complaints

Karin Goodwin, John Jack Aug 30, 2018