… dyslexia and speech disorders. Children can also be marked down as needing support if they are suffering from mental health problems or have been affected by bereavement. Samreen Shah, a teacher who is also head of pastoral care at Bannerman High …
Category: Strathclyde County, Scotland
Errington Cheese row continues as produce goes back on sale
An artisan cheesemaker embroiled in a row with food safety authorities has placed his produce back on sale for the first time since a ban was imposed last year. But the action prompted watchdog Food Standards Scotland to yesterday warn the products made by Errington Cheese were still banned and the decision by a council to allow it to be sold was “premature”.
Physiotherapy ‘false economy’ warning as fifth of patients waiting more than 16 weeks
… of patients are being seen within the four week target, far short of the Government’s 90 per cent benchmark, but the health board is planning to cut a further nine physiotherapist posts this year on top of nearly three shed last year. The Society …
Row over MS charity as third branch in three years prepares to close its doors
VOLUNTEERS battling to save a centre that supports 400 people with multiple sclerosis have been told there are “plenty of other charity shops” to work if they disagree with the closure, it has been claimed. It comes amid a row over why bosses at the MS Society have decided their Ayrshire and Arran Branch centre and charity shop is surplus to requirements with expectations it will close at the end of next month.
How an illness led to a piece of Kirk history
Church of Scotland’s first Asian female minister tAquila Singh, who was brought up in the Christian faith from birth, will be ordained and inducted into Fernhill and Cathkin Parish Church in Rutherglen.Rev Aquila Singh PERHAPS unusually, Aquila Singh can remember something that happened when she was just two years old. She and her mother were about to board a plane that would take them from their native Pakistan to Glasgow, her father already having made the journey to find them a place to live.
Patients at Clydebank hospice could be asked to pay for care
… shift from NHSGGC to the newly created Integrated Joint Board (IJB) – made up of West Dunbartonshire Council and the health board – and future elderly patients will be means tested. It means that patients could be asked to make a contribution …