More than 100 children have died in local authority care in Scotland since 2000, according to a report published today, ahead of a seminar that aims to cut the toll.

THE CROWN Office was under fire from a Lanarkshire MSP this week over their handling of the prosecution of the Rosepark care home owners.

OLD folk with dementia are being secretly drugged in Scots care homes to make them easier to control. Staff are slipping sedatives into frail residents’ food or drinks.

RCN Scotland has called for an improvement in care home treament for people with dementia. The plea comes in the wake of a joint report from the Care Commission and Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland, which found that the quality of care for half the people in care homes in Scotland is not good enough.

THE location of a new “state-of-the-art” care home in Tranent, to replace the now dated Fa’side Lodge facility, has been revealed – though a question mark hangs over the future site of the town’s day centre.

Proposals for a 90-bed care home on the outskirts of Fort William are likely to be approved, despite claims that it is “grossly excessive” in size and will create an “institution”.

Urgent action should be taken to protect the human rights of people with dementia in care homes, a charity says. The call from Alzheimer Scotland came as two watchdogs published a report after visiting 30 care homes and interviewing 1,335 residents.