Highland Home Carers, one of Scotland’s leading independent providers of care for elderly and disabled people, has opened of a new Invergordon office. The company, originally established in 1994, now
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Police investigating four deaths at a private care home have submitted a report to the procurator fiscal. The development follows a joint investigation by Police Scotland and the Health and
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An increase in the number of reports of child sex abuse last year has prompted a charity to repeat its campaign urging parents to address the issue with their children.
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Care workers at Scotland’s largest council have gone on a two-day strike over changes to pay and conditions. Trade union Unison said its members were striking after they failed to
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The Scottish Government has rejected opposition attempts to bring forward legislation for its own childcare plans and to end “discrimination” in the provision of free nursery care. SNP politicians backed
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Scotland lacks a clear strategy to tackle child sexual exploitation. This is just one of the key recommendations from a report issued today by the Scottish Parliament’s Public Petitions Committee.
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Scotland’s independent social care watchdog, the Care Inspectorate, has published two new reports into services for children and young people in two local authority areas. The reports are the
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New investment by the government in Scotland could create as many as 2,000 full or part time childcare jobs, according to a Member of the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish government
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A man spent the night in police cells after an error by a member of Dundee City Council’s social work department, the city’s sheriff court has heard. Local newspaper, The
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Professor Jonathan Chick has been appointed as the new medical director of addiction specialist, Castle Craig. Professor Chick is an eminent consultant psychiatrist with a distinguished career in the National
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