Ellison Lang’s job is still unusual enough that she finds car insurance companies struggle to identify her chosen career. “I’m a project worker with Addaction Scotland and when I phone for quotes for car insurance my job isn’t listed,” she says “They have everything else you can imagine so it gives you an idea how new this field is.”

Deeside residents have objected to plans to relocate a church-owned care home and build flats in its place. People at Banchory are unhappy about an application to move the Bellfield Nursing Home from the centre of the town to a site on the eastern edge.

National not-for-profit organisation Momentum, officially opened its flagship Scottish headquarters last week.

The chief social worker at a council with one of the worst child protection records in Scotland has quit her post weeks before a crucial follow-up inspection, it emerged last night.

A Scottish council has launched an investigation into the care of 400 elderly people as a result of a TV documentary to be aired tonight which raises “serious and deeply concerning allegations”, according to the authority.

JK Rowlinghas resigned as patron of the MS Society Scotland claiming that executives in London are making demands on the Scottish charity that are tearing the organisation apart and changing it “beyond recognition.”