The Care Inspectorate has announced a new streamlined system for investigating complaints against registered care services, including care homes, care at home services and a wide range of social care services.

A care home worker is to stand trial accused of “wilfully neglecting” an 82-year-old patient.

A care home worker is to stand trial accused of “wilfully neglecting” an 82-year-old patient.

How to get people off benefits and into work is a question which has occupied policy makers for years. Could at least part of the answer lie in an Indian project which has inspired a group of women in one of Glasgow’s poorer areas?

Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont has renewed her attack on the universal provision of some benefits by the Scottish government.

The head of a leading charity has called for more volunteers to be used to provide social care in Scotland.

Hundreds of jobs will be axed and scores of services slashed – that’s the stark reality for embattled North Lanarkshire Council.

DISGRACEFUL, shocking and “a complete mess” – that’s how East Dunbartonshire Council employees and their clients have described the reorganised Homecare service which launched last week.

SCOTLAND’S largest council is expected to axe one thousand jobs as it looks to save close to £50m from its budget over the next two years.

FORMER carers of a pensioner who died amid a probe into the standard of at-home support he received have told how the private firm behind his care package had failed him.