A new report, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows that, in Scotland, the number of under-25s out of work has doubled in five years and that a boy born in a wealthy area will live 14 years longer than a boy born into poverty.

Education and social work are to be protected from cuts “in relative terms” by Glasgow City Council. Scotland’s largest local authority made the pledge while setting out its budget proposals for the next two years.

ORGANISATIONS SUPPLYING vital services to thousands of vulnerable people will be ordered to cut their own budgets to help Dundee City Council meet a £14 million savings target.

THE manager of a Scottish care home, accused of causing the premature death of an elderly patient, has been suspended from the nursing profession after being labelled a potential “risk and danger to the public.”

Edinburgh housing chiefs are facing demands to clamp down on poor homeless accommodation after new laws were introduced which are set to lead to far greater demands on services.

CHILDREN 1ST has responded to the latest report on the Savile abuse allegations, calling on everyone in Scotland to do what they can to protect children.

FRESH reports have been made to detectives about sexual attacks carried out in the 1950s by Alexander Gartshore, the convicted child rapist believed to have murdered Coatbridge schoolgirl Moira Anderson.

A former voluntary worker was caught with 258,000 child abuse images on his home computer.

A Helensburgh nursing home is set to close its doors as bringing the building up to scratch would not make “economic sense”, say its owners.

A Scottish Borders care home threatened with closure three years ago has again been criticised by inspectors.