A Fife care home once described as having ”serious issues” by the Care Commission has been praised in a recent inspection report.

A Dundee care home has been told it needs to make sure it has enough staff throughout the building to look after residents.

A NEW “lifeline” service aimed at preventing young runaways from becoming homeless when they are older has been launched in Scotland.

FOR years after his wife died he struggled to make it out of his front door and went for days without speaking to another person.

The Scottish Social Services Council is carrying out a two year programme focussing on assistive technologies in social work and social care.

SPENDING on a scheme to monitor high-risk sex offenders newly released from Scottish jails has been slashed by more than £1 million, or 90 per cent, newly released figures have revealed.

THERE was “every chance” an elderly Dingwall care home resident would have survived her infected bed sores if reasonable steps had been taken, according to a sheriff.

A police report suggests the files were found in a car park, but not the one behind the social work offices in Dumfries’ Irish Street. According to the force, the three files, which contained details of criminals and their victims, were picked up by two tourists from Manchester in the Whitesands.

A HOMELESS charity has claimed Midlothian Council has more work to do if it is to deliver on national reforms proposed by the Scottish Government.

The governor of Scotland’s biggest jail has claimed many prisoners are mentally unwell and should be in hospital rather than prison.