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Why child refugees are less likely to go missing in Scotland

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Help Talking-up Scotland keep going Crowdfunder at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-talking-up-scotland-keep-going Or by direct bank transfer to: JOHN WATSON ROBERTSON Sort Code – 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 In the Guardian today, the above headline and: Forty children who went missing from hotels housing asylum seekers in the UK have still not been found, according to a parliamentary report. Ministers are facing calls from MPs and peers to explain what they are doing to locate the group, two of whom are believed to still be under 18. The figure emerged in a report on Thursday by the joint committee on human rights on how the social care system is failing young adults. … Continue reading Why child refugees are less likely to go missing in Scotland

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Just as Burnham would never come to Dunsinane – In 2024, the Bishop, the thinktank Chief Exec, the editor and Gordon Brown all avoided looking north for help with child poverty

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You won’t be surprised to hear how in May 2024, campaigning for Labour, there was not a word, from Gordon Brown, this Labour Party elder, of Scotland’s far lower child poverty nor of how the SNP’s child payment is leading to its disappearance in Scotland, nor of Labour’s refusal to end the cruel two-child benefit cap, if elected. Maybe the Archbishop would mention poverty in Scotland and the Child Benefit? Not a word. It turns out the Bishop of Leicester too had a piece in the Guardian. He doesn’t know about Scotland either, it seems, but does mention Labour, if … Continue reading Just as Burnham would never come to Dunsinane – In 2024, the Bishop, the thinktank Chief Exec, the editor and Gordon Brown all avoided looking north for help with child poverty

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Scotland’s world-first opioid overdose reversal programme kits being issued in ever greater numbers to fight the effects of the plague of English drug gangs with cheaper more powerful forms backed by extreme violence and to reduce the load in hospitals

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From National naloxone programme Scotland – Quarterly monitoring bulletin Quarterly Monitoring Bulletin July to September (Q2) 2025/26, published today, the above, and: This release by Public Health Scotland (PHS) presents information on the number of take-home naloxone kits issued by the National Naloxone Programme (NNP) in Scotland (1 July 2025 to 30 September 2025). Figures are presented separately for kits issued from community-based services (mainly specialist drug treatment and non-drug treatment services), kits issued in prisons at the point of liberation, kits dispensed via community prescription, and kits issued by Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS). Accidental overdose is a common cause … Continue reading Scotland’s world-first opioid overdose reversal programme kits being issued in ever greater numbers to fight the effects of the plague of English drug gangs with cheaper more powerful forms backed by extreme violence and to reduce the load in hospitals

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SNP-led Highland Council unable to prevent English drug gang invasion will use Scottish planning laws to stop UK Government from settling 300 asylum seekers in Inverness barracks

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Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above. The plague of County Lines drug gangs, based in English cities, bringing with them increased drug deaths, extreme violence, prostitution, child abuse and general crime, is well-known in Highland Region, if not well-reported by ther news agency many of them pay a licence fee for. Today, we read from BBC Highlands & Islands: Planning rules could further delay Home Office moves to house about 300 asylum seekers at a military base in Scotland, it has emerged. MSPs Fergus Ewing and Edward Mountain say under Scottish law, Highland Council would need to … Continue reading SNP-led Highland Council unable to prevent English drug gang invasion will use Scottish planning laws to stop UK Government from settling 300 asylum seekers in Inverness barracks

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Foreign medics NOT shunning NHS Scotland because of anti-migrant rhetoric from London parties

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Professor John Robertson OBA The Guardian above has another of its ‘UK’ pieces with not a word on Scotland in it. There is, of course, no peer-reviewed research on this topic but, the MSM often tell us that they just report what is happening out there. So, comparing media reporting on this issue in Scotland and England’s media will give us a reasonable comparison. Given the background independence factor we can be very sure that if the Scottish media had any accounts of health workers leaving Scotland because of an anti-migrant rhetoric here, we’d know all about it. So: In … Continue reading Foreign medics NOT shunning NHS Scotland because of anti-migrant rhetoric from London parties

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Trafficked child refugees in the ‘UK’ – researchers seem unaware of more humane and caring approach with guardians in Scotland

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Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian today: More than 2,000 children who have been trafficked or who arrived in the UK alone to claim asylum disappeared from social services’ care last year, according to freedom of information data shared with the Guardian. The authors of a report, Until Harm Ends, submitted FoI requests to children’s services departments in councils across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland asking for information about trafficked children and those who arrived alone in the UK and claimed asylum, who then went missing after being taken into care. Data from 135 local authorities revealed that out of 2,335 … Continue reading Trafficked child refugees in the ‘UK’ – researchers seem unaware of more humane and caring approach with guardians in Scotland

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Why are only the right-wing media making an argument against 300 plus asylum seekers being sent to Inverness?

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Professor John Robertson OBA The news that the 309 young male asylum seekers arriving in Inverness are going to lead to veterans [three families] being booted out of Cameron Barracks in Inverness is only being covered by the right-wing media. I share the view that these families should absolutely be able to stay but there are other, bigger, reasons too. From BBC Highlands and Islands, 29 October 2025 A UK government minister says he recognises the “strength of feeling” about plans to use an Inverness barracks to house asylum seekers. Cameron Barracks is to provide accommodation for 309 men from next … Continue reading Why are only the right-wing media making an argument against 300 plus asylum seekers being sent to Inverness?

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Scotland IS different as it protects unaccompanied children seeking asylum

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Professor John Robertson OBA In the Guardian, today, the above and: More than 50 lone child asylum seekers who disappeared soon after arriving in the UK [sic] and while in the care of the authorities are still missing, according to data obtained by the Guardian. Many of the missing children arrived in small boats or hidden in the backs of lorries and are thought to have been taken by traffickers. Kent is often the place where they arrive. Freedom of information data from Kent county council (KCC), which is controlled by Reform UK, has documented 345 children going missing from their area, … Continue reading Scotland IS different as it protects unaccompanied children seeking asylum

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Add 309 young male asylum seekers to 10 brutal drug gangs from Liverpool and London and watch Inverness struggle for its life

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Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Highlands and Islands, 29 October 2025 A UK government minister says he recognises the “strength of feeling” about plans to use an Inverness barracks to house asylum seekers. Cameron Barracks is to provide accommodation for 309 men from next month, according to local Lib Dem MP Angus MacDonald. At Westminster, Mr MacDonald challenged Minister of State at the Home Office Alex Norris on the suitability of the site near Inverness city centre. Norris said any impact on communities would be “minimised” and the security of people living in surrounding areas was “paramount”. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx27x1k2rkmo Two … Continue reading Add 309 young male asylum seekers to 10 brutal drug gangs from Liverpool and London and watch Inverness struggle for its life

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Flood of ‘British’ austerity refugees into Scotland in the SNP era THREE TIMES the current flow of asylum seekers from war zones and may even surpass the level of Irish famine refugee migration in 1845/1851

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Support Talking-up Scotland’s work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details or by direct bank transfer method – Sort code 08-91-04, Account 12266421 Professor John Robertson OBA June 2023 Snapshot: As of June 2023, 4,660 individuals [asylum seekers] were receiving Section 95 support, 109 were on Section 98 support, and 554 were on Section 4 support in Scotland. https://www.gov.scot/publications/extending-right-work-asylum-seekers-scotland-evaluation-analysis-policy-options/pages/4/ 4-5 000 a year – is that large number of refugees? From The Irish Famine in a Scottish Perspective 1845-1851 by Géraldine VAUGHAN, in 2015, it is estimated that there were roughly 115,000 Irish incomers to Scotland for those six years.1 … Continue reading Flood of ‘British’ austerity refugees into Scotland in the SNP era THREE TIMES the current flow of asylum seekers from war zones and may even surpass the level of Irish famine refugee migration in 1845/1851