A recent report by The Law Society of Scotland has highlighted the laws surrounding cohabitation as both ‘problematic and disadvantageous to vulnerable and grieving people’.

In the year ending September 2018, there were 18,750 new build homes completed across all sectors, an increase of 635 home (four per cent) on the previous year, according to the recent quarterly data from Scotland’s Chief Statistician. The four per cent rise included rises in housing association completions (35 per cent), local authority completions (eight per cent), and a three per cent fall in private-led completions.

A recent study has found children that experience a family split in their late childhood and early adolescence (between the ages of seven and 14) are more likely to have emotional and behavioural problems than those who live with both of their parents.

The government announced that thousands more families with adopted children are set to benefit from additional support after a special fund, named the Adoption Support Fund, received a boost of £12 million last month – bringing the total investment into the fund to £149 million since its introduction in 2015.

Earlier this year a 28-year-old Nathan Sparling made the headlines when he launched a bid for legislative change to allow adults to be adopted by someone who raised them. The reason behind his push for legislative change captured the hearts of the nation. Nathan never knew his dad but was brought up by his mum and her partner from the age of 12. He called her partner dad and had an excellent relationship with them. He wants to be able to be adopted by him as an adult as a way of thanking him for all he done for him growing up.