Double celebration for Beatlie School

A Livingston school which provides specialist education for young people with severe and complex medical needs has received a second financial boost in a matter of weeks.

The school, which provides innovative support and education for children from three to eighteen years old, discovered last month that it’s set to move to a new multi-million-pound campus, after it was selected to be part of the Scottish Government’s new School Investment Programme.

Now, local charity Radio Forth’s Cash for Kids has agreed to match-fund £1831, which local parents and teachers had raised as part of Cash for Kids Superhero Day. Continue reading Double celebration for Beatlie School

Paediatric inpatient services to resume at St John’s

Paediatric inpatient services in St John’s Hospital will resume on Monday (March 18).
NHS Lothian will reinstate the service from Monday to Friday morning each week to provide 24-hour services to children in West Lothian. Conservative health spokesman Miles Briggs MSP gave the announcement a guarded welcome but says the reopening must be sustainable.

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