Scottish council chiefs have condemned plans to shake-up adult community care as ‘simply incompetent’.

FORTH Valley has been awarded more than £3.6 million towards implementing Scottish Government proposals to integrate health and social care for adults.

The boss of an Angus secure accommodation unit for youngsters has moved to quash local rumours about the unit’s threatened closure.

Fife Council’s care homes have been sacrificed so the local authority can press ahead with a new Madras College in St Andrews, an independent councillor has claimed.

PLANS to expand an Aberdeen care home to create space for new residents have been revealed.

A JUDGE has ordered that three young Greenock children – whose parents have a history of drug abuse – should be adopted.

A number of Fife’s opposition councillors have lodged a formal complaint with council chief executive Ronnie Hinds following last week’s decision to close local authority care homes.

A LEADING Scottish university has drawn up plans to scrap or merge a raft of courses as part of moves to save £20 million over the next three years.