(Pictured Above) Will Linden, Deputy Head of Scottish Violence Reduction Unit Last week, Scotland witnessed a deeply concerning escalation of targeted hostility and violence against minority ethnic communities. Perpetrated under the cynical guise of “protecting white lives,” this flashpoint was fuelled by the brutal attack in Belfast on Steven Ogilvie and the tragic death of […]
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(Pictured Above) Nicole Savage, Senior Officer in North Lanarkshire Council and Lead in Contextual Safeguarding Implementation “I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain. The intense, often unmitigated pain…”Audre Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Language
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(Pictured Above) Dr Amrit Kaur Purba, Assistant Professor and Wellcome Fellow, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine In the 19th century, our politicians woke up to the dangers of unclean water. London’s aptly named ‘Great Stink’ of 1858 forced MPs to revolutionise the sewer network, and then the
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The number of years people in Scotland can expect to live in good health has fallen again, according to new figures. The Healthy Life Expectancy 2018 -2020 report shows those in our poorest communities now spend up to a third of their life on average in ill health. In this guest article writer and campaigner Kenneth Murray
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