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Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board have not treated the St Margaret of Scotland Hospice fairly. They carried out a consultation in 2000 over the closure of Blawarthill Hospital in which they were seeking to have the site of Blawarthill released for housing in order to obtain a capital receipt. In response to a local [...]
SNP cuts are causing local authorities to abandon key class size targets that have proven to be effective in tackling literacy and numeracy difficulties.
At least four of Scotland’s 32 councils are no longer following guidelines introduced by Labour of capping pupil numbers at 20 in English and Maths in the first two years of secondary school.
Why do Tesco need to double the size of their store in Milngavie, with most of the additional space being given over to non-food items, when they are building a massive new store a few miles away in Maryhill?
Clydebank MSP Des McNulty has spoken out against the re-designation of land between Dalmuir Park and the Boulevard, which includes the golf course, as open space as opposed to green space. He shares the concern expressed by organisations like Greenbelt and the Clydebank Seniors Forum that re-designation would remove protection which prevents the land being [...]
Watch Des's opening speech in the Literacy Commission Debate, where he called on the First Minister to make literacy Scotland’s number one educational priority and to ensure every child in Scotland leaves primary school able to read, write and count.
Those responsible for the overwhelming majority of the violence and anti-social behaviour linked to alcohol should be the government's target, people whose actions are in many cases fuelled by drinking the likes of Buckfast and cheap cider and end up with themselves or others having to be taken to casualty units. The measures the government should be prioritising are those tackling the behaviour of hazardous drinkers rather than someone wanting to buy a reasonably priced bottle of wine to enjoy with their dinner.
Des was very pleased to meet with both Clober and Craigdhu Primary school recently.
Des often gets the opportunity to visit schools in his Constituency or to meet with schools that are visiting the Scottish Parliament. This gives pupils the chance to ask Des questions about local issues that are important to them, and to quiz Des on what he is [...]
Residents in Old Kilpatrick are sadly familiar with helicopters flying over the village after suicide attempts. In the past, there were cases where people jumped off the bridge and landed in resident’s gardens. The installation of higher fencing on the northern approaches to the bridge in the early 1990s prevented further incidents of that kind [...]
Des McNulty MSP gives Labour's opening and closing speeches discussing Scotland's Road Safety Framework . Des raises the issue that the Government needs to do much more to support cyclists and pedestrians, and especially those with impaired vision, whose concerns are not given enough prominence in the road safety framework.
Clydebank and Milngavie MSP Des McNulty is backing calls for a mandatory prison sentence for people caught carrying and using knives.
Knife crime is responsible for half of all murders in Scotland, including 39 in the Strathclyde Police region last year.
But the latest figures show that two out of three knife criminals dodge prison when [...]
