As the Scottish Budget passes its first vote at Holyrood, we're at a charity in Dumfries to get their take on John Swinney's promise to eradicate child poverty | ITV News Border ...

The number of homeless children living in temporary accommodation is at its highest level since records began in 2002, ...

The uncomfortable truth is the Scottish Government is failing to meet vital targets it has set to build new homes.

The Scottish Government’s child poverty targets have “focused minds”, a Holyrood committee has said, but more action is needed to meet them.

Here we are again, with our red pens looking to see how we can balance to books for our city’s finances for 2025-2026 again.

As of September 30, there were 16,634 households living in temporary accommodation – which included 10,360 children.

Peter MacMahon on what's changed since Nicola Sturgeon's education pledge 10 years ago and could a 'Jordanhill' model work in other ...

The last thing Mr Sarwar wants is an early election, and the smaller parties aren’t gunning for one either, so that’s made it much easier for Mr Swinney and his finance minister Shona Robison to get ...

Turning around a government that has lost its way is one of the trickiest feats in politics, all the more so if that ...

Swinney accused Sarwar of trying to “scare off” investment in renewable energy and categorically denied the green light for new nuclear power facilities would be given. Scottish Greens’ co-leader ...

Carter's inaugural words will one day be the political epitaph of John Swinney. The First Minister, like Ford, is a ...

I need you to be less worried about money” ...