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Behind the scenes at Sunday Sequence

11 Sep 2015

Scope meets Seamus Boyd, the driving force behind Radio Ulster’s flagship Sunday Sequence show.

Can slavery be defeated?

10 Sep 2015

Forced labour remains a global scourge. Scope went along to a Law Centre NI conference and spoke with Kevin Hyland, UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner and former top cop at the Met, about what can be done.

Refugees, migrants and Ireland

4 Sep 2015

Scope editor Nick Garbutt reflects on the refugee crisis and looks back at Ireland's history of migration

Every Lidl helps: helping charities can be super marketing for businesses

Paul Gibson (left) with the Lidl Community Works judges

2 Sep 2015

Following the announcement of a new Lidl scheme to fund community groups across Northern Ireland, Scope asks whether partnerships between the voluntary and private sectors are a world of untapped potential.

Sector faces massive job losses, survey claims

28 Aug 2015

Scope reports on the latest threat to community and voluntary sector funding

Did the IRA go away?

27 Aug 2015

Are there any politicians and commentators who seriously did not know that the IRA still existed?

Time to make the most of the welfare crisis

Iain Duncan Smith in March 2010 in his role as Chairman of the Centre for Social Justice

27 Aug 2015

Even if an under-pressure Iain Duncan Smith is forced from the cabinet his recent policies are set to run and run, writes Ian James Parsley. They have popular support and this is unlikely to change.

Shroud education: sharing and the future

Les Allamby is the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commissioner

20 Aug 2015

Shared Education is the big new thing for helping society come together and improving schooling. But what are we supposed to expect?

Will the BBC get blown away by the gathering storm?

19 Aug 2015

Just how serious is the threat to the BBC posed by the Westminster government and should we be worried about it?

Whatever happened to Heenan Anderson?

14 Aug 2015

Whatever happened to the Heenan-Anderson Commission?

NI's rejection of marriage equality 'a breach of religious rights'

The recent marriage equality rally in Belfast

13 Aug 2015

Local failure to bring forth marriage equality legislation matching the rest of the UK is set to be challenged in the High Court this autumn, on the basis that it is an infringement of the right to freely practice religion.

Why we need to know the truth about Kincora

12 Aug 2015

Why is Secretary of State Theresa Villiers so determined to ensure that allegations about child abuse at Kincora Boys Home in Belfast does not form part of the UK investigation?

Shifting sands: NI's political landscape on marriage equality is changing

6 Aug 2015

Last week Scope highlighted the view that marriage equality in Northern Ireland is "inevitable" - are changes in the past week a sign of this inevitability in action?

Should we have the right to die on our own terms?

Stephen Hawking - here at a conference with renowned physicists David Gross (left) and Ed Witten - has said he would consider ending his own life if he had "nothing more to contribute"

5 Aug 2015

Debate about right to die - and the right to help our loved ones do so, if they wish - is growing in the UK. Scope looks at a deceptively simple point of principle and its complex fine details.

Crisis Fund: can a little go a very long way?

Patrick Sanders' view on: the Crisis Fund

31 Jul 2015

Earlier this year OFMdFM released a small amount of funds to help vulnerable ethnic-minority migrants in crisis. Scope speaks with fund administrators the Red Cross about its success.

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