A 20-year-old Dundee nursery worker has appeared in court on charges relating to images of child abuse.

Alzheimer Scotland has organised six events, throughout Scotland, as an opportunity for you to come along and comment on the progress of Scotland’s National Dementia Strategy to date, identify the gaps, opportunities and priorities and to help shape the direction of Scotland’s National Dementia Strategy from 2013.

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.

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’.