High-quality nursery education can help improve children’s performance into secondary school, according to a new research paper. Pre-school experience enhances all-round development in children and may particularly benefit disadvantaged children,
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Nursery children are being offered screening for tuberculosis after a member of staff tested positive for the disease. NHS Lanarkshire has contacted all parents of children as well as members
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Bereaved parents have called for a full public inquiry after a report on a baby ashes scandal at a crematorium found hundreds of people face a “lifetime of uncertainty” over
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Dozens of elderly patients were kept in a major hospital despite being well enough to be discharged, according to an inspection report which raised grave concerns about the care given
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A new freephone number for NHS 24 will help protect the “founding principles” of the health service, the Scottish Government has claimed. The medical advice line – which people can
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The rise of food banks is the result of “poor people maximising their economic opportunities” and has not been caused by tougher rules over benefit payments, a senior UK Government
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The report on the disposal of babies ashes at Mortonhall Crematorium has now been published online by the City of Edinburgh Council and you can read it at the link
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One in 50 Citizens Advice Bureau Scotland clients have said they do not have enough money to buy food, according to new figures. The organisation said that between January and
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Spending on free personal care for elderly people living at home in Scotland has increased by more than 160% since the flagship policy was introduced, with the bill reaching almost
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A respite unit in Dumfries and Galloway has been praised by Scotland’s social care watchdog after it received top grades at two consecutive inspections. Station Brae Respite Unit in Newton
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