The Care Inspectorate is introducing an online policy/research ‘hub’, providing access to research tools and online training, publications and policy updates, as well as a good practice section featuring case studies from a variety of settings.

Enterprise minister Fergus Ewing is to outline Scottish Government support for disabled workers losing their jobs at Remploy factories.

ALMOST half of Scotland’s young runaways are at risk of being sexually exploited and most of them are unaware of the risks they face, children’s charity Barnardo’s has warned.

HARD-up parents are being forced out of work by childcare costs in the Capital – which are now the highest in Europe.

RESIDENTS of a care home were evacuated after a fire broke out in the early hours of this morning.

Ten Glaswegians, who have been long-term unemployed, successfully completed a training scheme organised by Cordia and Glasgow Regeneration Agency to become home-carers for the front line services provider.

Two in five households live in fuel poverty, as a result of energy price rises, according to a charity’s estimates.

The dozens of domestic abuse incidents reported to police in Fife during the first week of December were probably just the ”tip of the iceberg”, Fife Women’s Aid has said.

Cash earmarked for support services for vulnerable people in south west Scotland could be used to help balance a budget for refuse collection.

A SHERIFF has launched a blistering attack on city social workers after they recommended he let off an armed teenage thug who threatened to kill a couple in their own home.