A ROW was sparked over care homes for the elderly as plans for a new £5m ‘care village’ in Kirkcaldy was given the go-ahead.

SNP councillors are denying they are to blame for a £1.8 million overspend in Stirling Council’s social services budget.

A COUNCIL social care worker is to stand trial accused of conning benefits bosses out of almost £7000 by claiming he was too ill to work.

WORK has started on the first of five new homes in an £80million development that will house hundreds of elderly people. Glasgow City Council is building supported accommodation and four

Supported holidays, clubs and swimming sessions are just some options Dundee City Council says it could offer through greater ”personalisation” of services for adults with learning difficulties.

A new base for offenders ordered to carry out community service should be up and running in Castle Douglas by the spring.

An action group is making a last-ditch attempt to persuade Dundee councillors to save the Kemback Street centre.

THE Scottish Government has called for the closure of factories that employ disabled workers to be suspended.

The Care Inspectorate has launched ‘How well are we improving the lives of children and young people?  A guide to evaluating services using quality indicators’.

THE ONLY local authority run care home in Brechin, St Drostan’s House, is to close, Angus Council has announced.