The cost to East Renfrewshire Council of converting an A-listed building in Newton Mearns into a centre for excellence to help children recover from traumatic experience has almost tripled.
Councillors have agreed to spend an extra £780,000 on a project which will see Capelrig House become a “pioneering” ‘Child's House for Healing’.
The council has been working with charity Children’s 1st on Scotland’s first Barnahus, an internationally recognised approach, first developed in Iceland, to protect children’s rights to justice and recovery.
