According to findings from Scotland’s Care Inspectorate, the majority of care homes with service issues raised at inspection are moving in the right direction despite a turbulent time for the sector.

Five members of staff have been suspended at a private care hospital in Dundee. Castlebeck Care, which runs Monroe House, said a full probe was being carried out into allegations of inappropriate behaviour.

A woman who abused and mistreated elderly residents at a care home where she worked has been struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

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.

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.

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.