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Exclusive: Energy minister Miatta Fahnbulleh confirmed her department has assessed the impact the policy change will have on pensioners living in fuel poverty, but said only that it will be published ‘in due course’

Editorial: The government wants to act tough over the public finances. But ministers look mean, unjust and politically inept

Many people in the UK are struggling to access adequate dental care to help keep teeth healthy. NHS dentistry is in decline and dental hygiene poverty on the rise. Budget cuts are contributing to “dental deserts” across the country where there’s minimal or no NHS dental health care provision and…

Despite widespread support for cash grants, a dark money-funded policy group is influencing GOP lawmakers to prohibit them.

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JOHN Swinney accused the Tories of having “destroyed” Scotland’s future – as he hit back at attacks for abandoning plans to make free meals…

THE Scottish Government is “standing by” its commitment to provide free school meals to all primary school pupils, the Deputy First Minister…

A recent report showed UK’s teenagers have grown dissatisfied with life. It calls for economic and educational reforms.

First minister makes eradicating child poverty his top priority while Scottish Labour says he had ‘no vision’