Enjoyed joining yesterday’s BBC Debate night. We discussed the vaccine rollout & the need of getting the 2nd dose rolled out swiftly especially for NHS, care staff & care home residents, the distraction of the SNPs IndyRef2 & the urgent need to use the Scot Parl’s powers to the full & to deliver recovery from …
Glad that I was able to contribute at Edinburgh Evening News piece on homelessness: local authorities cannot cope with their workload -we urgently need additional funding & new affordable houses to be built in Edinburgh so that people can get a permanent home. Find out more here.
Good to see that The Scotsman and HeraldScotland reported on today’s Local Gov and Communities Committee’s work on legislation to address the impact of short term lets. We need to make sure that residents have access to affordable, high quality housing. https://www.scotsman.com/…/not-fit-purpose-short-term.. .https://www.heraldscotland.com/…/19061158.msps-back…/
According to Scottish Government figures, there has been a significant rise in people seeking help with council tax payments over the past year. The number claiming Council Tax Reduction soared by more than 10 per cent from 32,920 in November 2019 to 36,340 in November 2020 after having fallen fairly steadily over the previous five …
Scottish Labour is calling for action to stop Lothian patients missing out on vital operations. Waiting times were already too long, supporting & remobilising our NHS has to be an urgent priority. The full article is available here.
At the turn of the year there was rightly anxiety about the reality of Brexit and concerns about how that would play out. But the pandemic has eclipsed that. We all know the human cost not just in terms of the numbers of deaths or the long term impact on people’s physical health through long …
Priorities emerge from toughest year imaginable – My Article @ Edinburgh News Read More »
You can find the full article here.
My comment on last Friday’s racist attack on Edinburgh University campus. Hate and prejudice have no place in Scotland.
It is shocking that NHS Lothian chiefs will not reveal the numbers of Covid-19 positive patients discharged to a care home. Concerns have been growing for months about patients being discharged from hospitals and being sent to care homes.
