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Pretty vacant: Local authorities and tax havens own hundreds of empty properties
Local authorities own over 1,100 vacant properties in Scotland’s cities while real estate investors, tax haven firms and
More than 10,000 data breaches by Scottish local authorities
Scottish local authorities have recorded more than 10,000 data breaches over the last five years, The Ferret can reveal.
Glasgow City Council criticised over free bus passes for asylum seekers
A charity that helps survivors of torture has accused Glasgow City Council of failing to provide young asylum seekers and
Strathclyde University accused of stalling on slavery ties
Strathclyde University has been accused of failing to make progress on commitments — made more than two years ago — to research
More than £1bn awarded to private firms by councils
Scottish councils have awarded contracts worth more than £1bn to private companies since 2015, The Ferret can reveal. The firms
Glasgow spent ten million on agency cleansing workers
Glasgow City Council has spent almost £10m on agency workers to empty bins and deal with recycling in the last
Council contracts with debt collectors worth up to £20m
Local authorities have been accused of issuing “escalating threats” to people behind on their council tax, after The Ferret found
Glasgow homeless hotel making up to a million for ‘rundown’ rooms sparks outrage
A Glasgow hotel housing vulnerable homeless people is being run “like an open prison” while charging £1,400 a month
Family fleeing Iraq death threats housed in ‘filthy and infested’ Home Office flat
Afran opens a drawer and pulls out creams and tablets, prescribed to deal with the bites covering his children’s
Asylum seeking children missed months of school while in overcrowded B&Bs
Asylum children in Scotland have spent months living in overcrowded B&B rooms with their families and struggled to
Claim SNP delivered over 105,000 affordable homes is True
With the cost of living crisis growing, debate around the need for affordable and social housing has been intensifying, with
FFS explains: What powers do councils have?
Scotland’s council elections are approaching, with voters across the country set to cast their ballots. Many parties have campaigned