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Everyone wants to live well. It is also important to die well.

Twenty years after the Good Friday Agreement so-called punishment beatings are on the rise.

Claire Keatinge has plenty to say as she reflects on her four years in office as Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland.

The Mental Capacity Bill discriminates against children and represents a missed opportunity to protect the most vulnerable, argues Eamonn McNally from the Children’s Law Centre

The importance of Welfare Reform in Northern Ireland has shrunk, grown or both - depending on your views - thanks to the Chancellor's July budget. Over 100,000 homes have projected income reductions of over £1,600. Scope takes a look.

Behind the headlines progress is being made in implementing the flagship Transforming Your Care programme, Scope reports. 

The current political crisis is having unexpected consequences, Scope reports. 

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Whatever happened to the Heenan-Anderson Commission?

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? 

Analysis: Colin Harper of the Belfast Law Centre on the Mental Capacity Bill 

Scope visits the newly-opened Museum of Orange Heritage on Belfast’s Cregagh Road. 

When the Department of Education announced it was to stop funding Northern Ireland’s Bookstart scheme it said it was “working around the clock” to find alternative sources of funding. 

The recent Glasmullin dispute has raised questions about Northern Ireland’s planning laws, Scope dissects the issues. 

The first gay couple to celebrate a civil partnership in Northern Ireland are seeking a judicial review challenging the ban on gay couples getting married here.