A CARE home in Wick is in need of “a total shake-up from top to bottom,” it was claimed yesterday.

IT has offered respite care for children with complex disabilities for more than a decade. Now, city (Edinburgh) residents are being asked to dig deep to help Gilmerton Road raise £455,000 to refurbish and extend the facility, which provides a respite service for local families with children who have a learning disability and severe behavioural problems.

Children in social housing are more likely to have an accident at home. GHA is helping parents to prevent the worst, by
Lorraine McLaren

AN INVESTIGATION has been launched into the death of a 99-year-old woman in a care home, police have said.

ONE in five children is living in poverty in parts of almost every local council area in Scotland, a survey from a group of leading charities has revealed.

Practical gadgets to help the elderly and infirm at home have been developed by a university team using the latest technology.

Whether independent or devolved from the UK, Scotland is set to gain more control over welfare spending – including state pensions, unemployment and disability benefits.

A probe into the financial management of social work in Dumfries and Galloway has uncovered a number of failings.

Two women whose new-born babies were taken into care have won a court ruling that their human rights were breached.

A RENOWNED programme for victims of substance abuse is moving its HQ today. LEAP (Lothians and Edinburgh Abstinence Programme) will now be run from a newly refurbished and newly named Woodlands House, at the Astley Ainslie Hospital site in Morningside.