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The Carnegie Trust has recently announced a £350,000 fund for “embedding wellbeing” in Northern Ireland. This sounds great. But what does it mean?

Scope editor Nick Garbutt argues that the time has now come for a full, mature and honest debate about how we pay for social care

Our politicians have largely failed to progress health reform - due to problems mirrored elsewhere - but their absence does not really make things easier.

The Good Friday Agreement’s 20th anniversary has dominated the news this week – but Reflected Lives, a new oral history project, tells vital stories about where NI has come from and where it finds itself today.

Scope looks at a remarkable partnership between a health authority and a rugby club which supported a 7.2% reduction in local hospital admissions.

Eileen Mullan, outgoing chair of AgeNI reflects on her nine years on the board, and outlines the remaining challenges for older people.

Why does the local health service have some astounding obstacles to helping people with hearing loss?

War on Want NI has joined together with Self Help Africa, based in the Republic of Ireland, and people from both charities are enthusiastic about the future.

In a week dominated by controversy about how our social media data is exploited Scope looks at how Facebook also uses data to save lives.

One of the most damaging public misconceptions in dealing with the perpetrators of crime is the notion that the more severe the punishment, the less likely the criminal is to offend.

A report just published into the mental health of people working in the creative sector is truly shocking and needs to be addressed.

Equality dominates local headlines and cut through a huge number of contentious issues in NI and throughout the world. But what does it mean, why is it a good thing, and how do we ensure its impact is as positive as possible?

Senior health officials will be wrestling with an extremely tricky dilemma this week.

This week saw the publication of a report into discrimination against Travellers published by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission

The NI Audit Office report released this week outlines 15 years of missed opportunities to improve diabetes care. The findings serve as a cautionary tale for the ongoing failures in wider health reform.

The Good Friday Agreement has come under a barrage of criticism as part of the Brexit arguments. Threatening it wholesale is madness – but nothing should be free from scrutiny.

Nick Garbutt asks if devolving more power to local councils might help provide some of the political stability Northern Ireland so desperately needs. 

Neil Wilson, Information Officer at NICVA, argues that GDPR will bring benefits for the Third Sector.

Kevin Higgins, Head of Policy at Advice NI on the past, present and future of social security in the UK. 

NI’s poverty woes have been in the headlines this week – the last decade has been wasted. However, the story goes further: the nature of poverty has changed, which must be recognised if the problem is to be fixed.