Louise's impressive work has recently earned her the Scottish Woman’s Enterprise Rural Business of the Year award and she is an extremely worthy winner of this accolade. 2/2

Alongside our investment in Housing First, rapid rehousing and winter support, it’s proof that when you put Scotland’s future in Scotland’s hands, we deliver progressive policies that protect the most vulnerable.

This new Fund to Leave will give women the support they need to walk away from abuse with dignity and safety.

While the SNP acts to give survivors independence, Labour at Westminster continues to inflict welfare cuts and austerity that deepen inequality and trap women in dangerous situations.

This SNP government is taking action to improve lives across Argyll and Bute - that’s what you get with the SNP, progress delivered and, ultimately, a fresh start with independence.

As part of John Swinney’s mission to eradicate child poverty, the investment and action announced this week will directly help families.

Following Brexit and economic mismanagement by Westminster, too many families in Argyll and Bute have been forced into unsuitable housing conditions, and the SNP is determined to end that for good.

SNP policies like this are changing countless lives across Argyll and Bute, and will continue this work to achieve our ambitious goals of closing the attainment gap even further.

10 years on from the launch of the Attainment Challenge, the attainment gap between young people from the most and least deprived areas meeting standards in literacy has reached a record low.

Under this SNP government, the poverty-related gap for young people leaving school and going on to a positive destination has reduced by 60 per cent since 2009 - narrowing at all three key qualification levels.