Health boards have been given a £9.1 billion budget boost to fund services in 2013-14. The funding for the 14 territorial health boards represents a real-terms rise of 3.3% on the previous year, the Scottish Government said.

Police are appealing for information following a bogus caller incident in North Berwick yesterday.

Renfrewshire Council and independent agencies in Renfrewshire have welcomed the publication of a new report outlining the progress made towards improving child protection services in Renfrewshire following the tragic death of Declan Hainey.

New care proposals planned for Scotland are not about budget cuts, Holyrood’s public health minister Michael Matheson has insisted.

The CHILDREN 1ST Annual Lecture 2012 will take place on Monday 26 November 2012 from 6pm at the Apex Waterloo Place Hotel, Edinburgh and will be delivered by Kaye Adams, journalist, TV and radio broadcaster.

Plans to build a £150m replacement for Edinburgh’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children have been approved.

Independent MSP Margo MacDonald is to bring back proposals to allow people the legal right to die.

Gayle Rice explains how a project in Scotland has involved young people in planning and designing care leavers’ services

VULNERABLE children could be at risk after the laptop of an adoption worker was stolen over a month ago with “several years worth” of sensitive information on it.

An inspection has found a dozen areas for improvement needed in care for older patients at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary.