A West Lothian care home for young people has received top marks from Scotland’s social care regulator, the Care Inspectorate. Selms House, in Kirknewton, was graded excellent across the board
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An Aberdeen care home has been told it must make improvements after the quality of care it provided to residents was graded ‘weak’ for the second inspection in a row
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A childcare manager has been struck-off after sending a six-year-old home alone because of not being on the register for that day’s after-school club. Sarah Stewart, of Angus, Tayside, has
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Organisations and members of the public across Scotland are being offered the opportunity to give their views on the standards of care that people receive. Scots are being asked to
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A review of the justice system is to be carried out as part of an ambitious new blueprint aimed at ending all violence against women and girls. The Scottish Government
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A new group set up to establish a pilot of “Clare’s Law” in Scotland will meet for the first time next week, it has been announced. First Minister Alex Salmond
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A new national service to help chronic pain sufferers will be based in Glasgow. The specialist team will be located at the Gartnavel Hospital site, with experts seeing their first
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The City of Edinburgh Council has published an action plan in response to recommendations made in a report on the baby ashes scandal at a crematorium. Staff at Edinburgh’s Mortonhall
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A poverty action group said people were being blamed for being poor and much of the cash being spent to help was failing to reach those who needed it most.
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A hospital worker who lost his job after reports he posed for pictures wearing a patient’s underwear will not face criminal charges. James John Turner, a 21-year-old nursing auxiliary in
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