THREE new purpose-built care homes, providing a total of 180 beds, are to be built as part of East Lothian Council’s long-term approach to tackling the rapidly ageing county population.

Clients and workers of Penumbra will have to wait until the end of April to find out whether the mental health charity will be axing its Stornoway based services.

A NEW service for people with a learning disability is set to open in Corstorphine. The service will provide care and support for six young people with a severe or complex learning disability.

A social worker yesterday stood by a decision not to return a troubled teenager to secure accommodation months before she died after taking drugs on a night away from council care.

Child protection services in Scotland are a “ticking timebomb”, with social workers struggling to cope with increased caseloads and staff shortages, a leading union warned today.