Development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise is to host a summit on the future of “telehealthcare” in a bid to put the region at the forefront of the potentially lucrative emerging sector.
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Colin Anderson remembers when Peter Peacock, the former education minister, spoke to the Scottish Parliament about the Miss X case in the Scottish Borders.
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There has been a 36% increase in demand for charity food handouts in the Highlands. The rise in demand from facilities in Inverness and Invergordon has prompted an urgent appeal for donations to restock their shelves.
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Two health trusts have publicly apologised for “inexcusable failures” surrounding the psychiatric treatment of a suicidal woman who smothered her daughter and then took her own life.
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SAVINGS from the proposed closure of two ageing children’s homes in Swansea will be ploughed back into improving services to vulnerable young people, Cabinet has agreed.
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New services for people with dementia are being planned in Bath after the go-ahead for a £50 million project across the west. The joint initiative to provide specialist care facilities will also see new care homes being built in Wiltshire.
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The Care Leavers’ Association (CLA) has added its voice to the growing backlash against government plans to stop funding the National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care (NCERCC).
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Social care experts and a leading drugs charity are stepping up calls for social workers to receive compulsory specialist training in drug and alcohol abuse.
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A SENIOR social worker at Plymouth City Council has been accused of claiming she made home visits to children on 70 occasions when she had not.
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A HOUNSLOW social worker who failed to tell his employers about a string of police cautions and convictions has been allowed to continue to practise.
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