Council leaders have blasted “extreme and ill thought-out” welfare reforms that are due to come into force in just one week.

The loss of dementia beds from a troubled Tweedbank care home does not spell the end for the facility, according to Andrew Lowe.

Tribute was paid to the “life changing” work of social workers at the Scottish Association of Social Work Awards yesterday.

Scotland’s children’s minister Aileen Campbell used the Scottish Association of Social Work’s (SASW’s) annual awards event to call on Prime Minister David Cameron to rethink welfare reforms, which she said will unfairly impact upon the most vulnerable.

The community justice services manager at Scottish social care charity, Cornerstone, has been selected from 1000 applicants to take up a place on the prestigious Winston Churchill Memorial Trust placement scheme.

Measures designed to give people who use social care more choice about the support they receive, could destabilise Scotland’s voluntary sector, impacting the workforce and service quality, according to a new report published by Strathclyde Business School’s department of Human Resource Management this week.

THE number of vulnerable adults being reported to social services as “at risk” is rising, it was revealed today.

A Craigneuk woman has slammed the care being given to her dementia-suffering mother by social services — even claiming that urine-soaked pillows were left beside a radiator to dry last week.

The manager of Cambuslang’s Eva Burrows Centre has been honoured by the Salvation Army.

TWO teachers at a special needs school in the Highlands – including the head – have been charged over alleged mistreatment of pupils.