IT has offered respite care for children with complex disabilities for more than a decade. Now, city (Edinburgh) residents are being asked to dig deep to help Gilmerton Road raise £455,000 to refurbish and extend the facility, which provides a respite service for local families with children who have a learning disability and severe behavioural problems.

Children in social housing are more likely to have an accident at home. GHA is helping parents to prevent the worst, by
Lorraine McLaren

Councillors on the Social Work Services Committee (Dumfries & Galloway Council) have been told that the latest forecast shows an estimated £760,000 budget pressure on Social Work Services for the current financial year.

A review of the fiasco sur­rounding the council’s plans to introduce charges for adult resource centres (ARCs) in the region (Dumfries & Galloway) has been branded a “delaying tactic” and a waste of taxpayers’ money by Labour politicians, who claim it vali­dated their findings from six months previously.

A CARE home in Wick is in need of “a total shake-up from top to bottom,” it was claimed yesterday.