The Scotsman leads with news that life expectancy in Scotland has decreased for the third year in a row. A National Records of Scotland (NRS) report shows it has dropped by three weeks for men and almost six weeks for women.
The Daily Record leads with a report that Scottish councils “raided” £7m for child abuse victims to bump up their latest pay offer to striking school workers. The paper says local authorities were so short of cash they struck a deal to free up the money this year from the state-backed redress scheme to put towards pay hikes.
A 20% drop in the value of home loans being given to first time buyers in Scotland is the focus of The Herald’s front page.
SNP MP Lisa Cameron’s concerns about her treatment by her party is the focus of the Scottish Daily Mail front page. Ms Cameron has represented East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow in South Lanarkshire since 2015. She fell out with the party leadership over its handling of an MP who was suspended for making a sexual advance to a staff member.
A charity’s fears over cancer patients in Scotland not receiving treatment quickly enough is the lead story on the front page of the Daily Express.
The Metro leads with a speech by Home Secretary Suella Braverman, delivered on a visit to the US, in which she called for reforms to the UN rules governing the definition and treatment of refugees. The paper says Ms Braverman argued the threshold for claiming refugee status had fallen too low and that it had become too easy to claim asylum.
Ms Braverman also argued that a failure to integrate migrants and a “misguided dogma of multiculturalism” had proved a “toxic combination” in Europe and that current levels of immigration pose an “existential threat” to the West, according to the Times.
Ms Braverman’s comments have attracted a lot of criticism, including from first minister Humza Yousaf, who makes the front page of The National.
A report prepared for the Covid Inquiry by The Children’s Rights Organisations alliance, a collective of children’s charities, has said the harm caused to children by lockdown measures like social distancing and school closures was preventable, according to the Daily Telegraph.
The i says private schools are set to “go to battle” with Labour over the party’s plans to charge 20% VAT on school fees if it wins the next election. Many private schools have charitable status and so are currently exempted from various taxes.
The Glasgow Times leads with news the city’s council spent £90,000 on events it hosted in football stadiums.
The Courier reports on the outcome of a domestic abuse court case involving former professional footballer Colin Nish.
The physical and verbal abuse suffered by striking school support staff in the Highlands is the focus of the Press and Journal.
The Aberdeen Evening Express reports that a film maker has been found guilty of choking his ex-partner.
A court case involving a sex attacker who battered a woman is the lead story in the Dundee Evening Telegraph.
A doubling in the rate of home evictions is the focus of the front page of the Edinburgh Evening News.
