A rights and assets-based approach is needed to create sustainable public services. Scotland could  already be leading the way, by Ruchir Shah

Edinburgh-based homelessness charity Fresh Start will use a new £16,233 grant to keep up with demand for its services helping people make a success of their new homes.

Around 1000 people have signed an online petition protesting the planned closure of the Kemback Street Adult Learning Centre.

Do you have an idea that could shape the future social service workforce?  The SSSC and the Institute for Innovation and Research in Social Services (IRISS) are working together to develop new solutions to the challenges facing the sector’s workforce. And your idea could become a reality if you get involved in the Workforce of the future challenge.

Aberdeen’s volunteers and the organisations which recruit them are to benefit from refreshed best practice guidelines when Community Planning Aberdeen launches its Volunteering Strategy this month.

A SHERIFF has ruled that the death of a woman who had to have her embedded denture removed in hospital was not due to any lack of care.

A MAJOR project to determine the availability of autism services across Scotland is to be launched in an attempt to end the “postcode lottery” for treatment.

A £34.5 MILLION fund to tackle violence against women is being distributed by the Scottish Government.

Small business leaders today urged Holyrood to legislate to encourage councils to spend more of their budgets with local firms. The call came after a survey showed Scottish authorities were lagging behind the rest of the UK in municipal local spending.

AN NHS unit for dementia sufferers has been closed on a temporary basis because of staffing pressures.