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A woman walks past a homeless person lying in a doorway in Glasgow city centre

THE FERRET Homeless crisis sparks call for Scotland to declare 'national housing emergency'

CHARITIES have called on the Scottish Government to declare a national housing emergency, claiming Scotland’s homeless system is at breaking point due to a worsening cost of living crisis and a new Home Office policy that puts refugees on the streets.

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Refuweegee founder and director Selina Hales

THE FERRET Home Office disputes leave refugee children homeless and sleeping in cars
MIGRANT and refugee children have been left homeless – with one family of five, including a preschool child, forced to sleep in a borrowed car in Glasgow ...

From left: Lorraine Bell, Collette Bell, partner of Sheku Bayoh, Ade Johnson, solicitor Aamer Anwar, sisters Adama Jalloh, Kadi Johnson and Kosna Bayoh at the Crown Office in Edinburgh before meeting Lord Advocate

THE FERRET What did the Sheku Bayoh Inquiry tell us about what really happened?
IT’S December in Edinburgh – the penultimate day of the first hearing of the Sheku Bayoh inquiry – and Kadi Johnson and Kosna Bayoh, Sheku’s older sisters, are exhausted.

Glass bottles left behind after a Premiership match between Rangers and Celtic at Ibrox Stadium

THE FERRET Scots back alcohol sponsorship having 'no place in sport', survey finds

A NEW survey has revealed that just one in four Scots would not support a ban on sports sponsorship by the alcohol industry ...

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Poppy (right) and Agnes (left) help families who are struggling with rising energy costs

The Ferret 'Bills higher than benefits': The Scottish energy advisers helping keep people warm

Lawyer Iain Smith has witnessed the harm first-hand

THE FERRET A chance for change: Trauma awareness is affecting Scotland’s justice system

"QUIET please”, reads the screen. “Court is in session.” Livingston’s busy summary court sits obediently silent while today’s sheriff reads the reports one more time and looks up at the 20-year-old woman sitting opposite him.

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Fred Parry said lessons must be learned from his son's death

THE FERRET NHS admits failures ‘may’ have contributed to death of grieving father’s alcoholic son

Campaigners have expressed concern over Police Scotland’s relationship with the Home Office

THE FERRET Outcry as thousands are held under immigration powers by Police Scotland

MORE than 3000 people – including asylum seekers – have been held in police cells for up to 72 hours under immigration powers over the past five years, new figures reveal.

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Angela Constance, Minister for Drug Policy. File photo.

COMMENT When it comes to drugs, what does justice really look like?

SCOTLAND has the highest drug-death rate in Europe. That’s a sentence I’ve written many times in recent years. Yet it never fails to pull me up short.

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The funeral of Badreddin Abadlla Adam, who stabbed six people in West George Street, took place at Linn Cemetery in Glasgow

THE FERRET Calls for inquiry into asylum system as figures show rising deaths in Scotland

AN escalating number of deaths in the asylum system are being “brushed under the carpet”, it has been claimed, as data obtained from the Home Office shows that ten asylum seekers have died in Scotland since May 2020.

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