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Leading children’s charity faces strike action

NEWS 15 February 2016 by Rab Armour

Families & Young People

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Unions angry at senior management wage increases while staff get minimal cost of living increase - if any

https://tfn.scot/news/leading-childrens-charity-faces-strike-action

£14m to help disabled Scots find work

NEWS 22 November 2016 by Susan Smith

Health & Social Care

Scotland's devolved employment programme is kicking off with a £14m contract for third sector bodies to support disabled people

https://tfn.scot/news/14m-to-help-disabled-scots-find-work

Eviction fears quashed as charitable trust sells homes

NEWS 10 November 2016 by Graham Martin

Regeneration & Housing

Tenants have been told they will not lose their homes after a charitable trust sold off its property in Edinburgh

https://tfn.scot/news/eviction-fears-quashed-as-charitable-trust-sells-homes

EXCLUSIVE: Charity was forced to call in liquidator over debts of £215,000

NEWS 17 January 2017 by Paul Cardwell

Management

The National Playbus Association went into liquidation because of two employment tribunals

https://tfn.scot/news/exclusive-charity-was-forced-to-call-in-liquidator-over-debts-of-215000

DWP tells PIP assessors: discriminate against mentally ill

NEWS 15 March 2017 by Rab Armour

Social Justice & Poverty

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Fears claimants will find it harder to get full entitlement to Personal Independence Payments

https://tfn.scot/news/dwp-tells-pip-assessors-discriminate-against-mentally-ill

£128m to speed up health reform in Scotland

NEWS 20 December 2016 by Susan Smith

Health & Social Care

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Scottish health secretary Shona Robison has unveiled a plan to increase the pace of health reform to see more services delivered in communities

https://tfn.scot/news/128m-to-speed-up-health-reform-in-scotland

Police Scotland accused of criminalising country’s Kurds

NEWS 10 January 2017 by Graham Martin

Social Justice & Poverty

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Police Scotland is running the risk of victimising and criminalising an entire community, Kurdish campaigners have warned

https://tfn.scot/news/police-scotland-criminalising-countrys-kurds

Campaigners call for PIP to be scrapped and DLA reintroduced

NEWS 11 April 2017 by Rab Armour

Social Justice & Poverty

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Petition wants the controversial system to be halted to be replaced with the old one

https://tfn.scot/news/campaigners-call-for-pip-to-be-scrapped-and-dla-reintroduced

Plan to get more Scots online

NEWS 1 May 2014 by Paul Cardwell

Culture & Leisure

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Determination to see Scotland become a world-leading digital nation by 2020

https://tfn.scot/news/plan-to-get-more-scots-online

Solidarity and unity with refugees around the world

OPINION 20 June 2017 by TFN

Environment & International

World Refugee Day is more than just an awareness day says Pauline Diamond Salim

https://tfn.scot/opinion/solidarity-and-unity-with-refugees-around-the-world

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Leading children’s charity faces strike action

£14m to help disabled Scots find work

Eviction fears quashed as charitable trust sells homes

EXCLUSIVE: Charity was forced to call in liquidator over debts of £215,000

DWP tells PIP assessors: discriminate against mentally ill

£128m to speed up health reform in Scotland

Police Scotland accused of criminalising country’s Kurds

Campaigners call for PIP to be scrapped and DLA reintroduced

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Solidarity and unity with refugees around the world

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