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Inferred Gagging Orders: The Quiet Silencing of Insight

by Excluded SCOTLAND | Mental Health and Wellbeing

Not all gagging orders are written, signed or legally enforceable Some exist only as implication, tone and whispered suggestion. These are inferred gagging orders, informal but powerful constraints that operate behind the scenes, particularly in politics, public...

Excluded, Indebted and Still Paying the Price

by Excluded SCOTLAND | Mental Health and Wellbeing

Poverty in Scotland 2025: An Excluded Perspective The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Poverty in Scotland 2025 report is one of the most comprehensive examinations of poverty published in recent years. It brings together national data, long-term trends and lived...

Could a Minimum Income Guarantee Work for Scotland and Should We Try It?

by Excluded SCOTLAND | Mental Health and Wellbeing

The concept of a Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) is a guaranteed level of income below which no one in society should fall and it has become a serious policy discussion in Scotland. At its heart, the MIG aims to ensure that everyone has enough money to live with...

When Westminster Says “We’ve Got Scotland Covered”

by Excluded SCOTLAND | Mental Health and Wellbeing

The next pandemic is not a question of if, but when Dr Chris van Tulleken’s recent BBC Horizon documentary, Disease X: Hunting the Next Pandemic, was a stark wake-up call. It reminded the world that another global pandemic isn’t a distant possibility it’s an...

Suicide Prevention

by Excluded SCOTLAND | Mental Health and Wellbeing

Let’s Continue the Conversation… We have experienced time and time again at Excluded Scotland, over the past five years, conversations are not always meaningful. There have been so many hot air blowers and kudos seekers;- jumping on the campaign bandwagon...

Inferred Gagging Orders: The Quiet Silencing of Insight

Excluded, Indebted and Still Paying the Price

Could a Minimum Income Guarantee Work for Scotland and Should We Try It?

When Westminster Says “We’ve Got Scotland Covered”

Suicide Prevention

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