Ahead of the opening of Glasgow's safer drug consumption space opening, The Ferret visited Moss Park Toronto service. Listen to our podcast.

Non-profits supporting asylum seekers have spent tens of thousands of pounds in a matter of months on things they say should be funded by the state.

Sheku Bayoh: The Inquiry is a podcast from The Ferret, bringing you up-to-date with the evidence heard on the controversial case.

Trauma aware lawyers and campaigners are driving changes to the way courts deal with offending in Scotland, which they argue will make society safer for everyone.

Refugee campaigners have demanded an inquiry into decisions taken by the Home Office and its contractor, after a major stabbing incident in Glasgow city centre. 

Campaigners are calling for Scotland to keep its "promise" to ensure those in care grow up"loved, safe and respected" as figures show a record number of young people died last year.

The Ferret visits Vancouver, Canada, to find out how safe supply prescriptions are transforming lives in local communities.

How a network of grassroots organisations are trying to catch people at risk of falling through the cracks in the UK asylum system.

Unions warned it would lead to community health teams in the city being "destroyed".

AS Scotland went into lockdown, Natasha – who has struggled with serious Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), depression and anxiety – felt a…

Four people die every week in Scotland while in prison, police cells or other forms of state detention or care, according to figures exclusively shared with The Ferret.

With the 2019 drug death statistics expected to reach record levels, families say they need support so their loved ones can get the help they need to survive.

Ferret Fact Service looked at some of the most common questions about channel crossings, immigration and asylum.

Disturbances have broken out outside a hotel in Liverpool after far-right protesters staged a demonstration against the presence of asylum seekers who have been accommodated in a hotel

A family business running bed and breakfasts and hostels in Edinburgh that have attracted complaints has been paid £15m by the city council.

DRUG treatment services need urgent investment if Scotland is to see a reduction in the number of people dying of overdoses, suicides and health…

A Glasgow homeless hotel is being run “like an open prison” while charging £1,400 a month for cramped and rundown rooms, it is alleged.

Author and musician Darren McGarvey, delivers his Reith Lecture on 'Freedom from Want'.

FEARS have been raised about the lack of emergency homeless accommodation in Glasgow that has seen vulnerable people turned away from the Winter…

The island of Barra is fighting a Covid-19 outbreak. But islanders say the pandemic highights a longstanding erosion of health and social care services.

CATHY McCormack, an anti-poverty campaigner from Easterhouse, first made the link between poor housing and health as a young mother. "I brought…

Two men taken away by Home Office officials during an immigration enforcement raid carried out during Eid, have been released back into their community.

Glasgow City Council is facing a legal case after it broke the law 3,365 times last year by failing to offer housing to homeless people.

The Home Office has been condemned for creating “a parallel world” of unsuitable asylum accommodation in hotels across Scotland where, critics claimed, asylum seekers have been left without adequate...

SCOTLAND should learn from the UK’s past failures to capitalise on the country’s oil revenues and aim to set up a wind fund by investing in…

Scottish local authorities are continuing to use “traumatising and humiliating” restraint methods on children as young as five in residential care, almost two years after signing up to keep The...

Maria Quinn is among those who have had essential support packages for disabled people stopped with almost no warning.

Almost 400 asylum seekers are still being housed in budget hotels rooms by Home Office contractor Mears and living on just over £1 per day despite concerns about the “devastating” impact on their...

The Ferret looked into Deep End practices and the ways they have developed to address the challenges faced by the country’s most deprived areas.

Scotland has a higher rate of homeless deaths than other UK countries, according to official statistics showing that 359 people died over a two-year period.

A 30-year-old Syrian man died after moving to a hotel used by the Home Office to house asylum seekers amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Senior political journalists walked out of Downing Street in protest over its decision to ban selected reporters from a briefing on Brexit.

With the 2019 drug death statistics expected to reach record levels, families say they need support so their loved ones can get the help they need to survive.

Hundreds are facing discharge delay from mental health wards despite being well enough to be discharged - in the most extreme cases for more than three years.

Scottish councils have given up to £200m to private firms to provide residential care for children and young people, despite promising to move away from the practice four years ago.

What happens when journalists find responses to social issues that might already be working? Should we examine solutions as well as problems? 

An rising number of deaths in the asylum system are being “brushed under the carpet”, after it emerged ten asylum seekers died since 2020.