Highland housing and social work committee has made a U-turn on plans to double day-care charges for vulnerable adults in the face of public pressure.

A CARE home for the elderly in Dumfries is to close. Nine residents of Fairfield House in Georgetown will have to move when it shuts.

SCOTTISH Health Minister Nicola Sturgeon is being drawn into the row over funding for respite care in North and North West Sutherland.

THE body that inspects care homes has spent £400,000 rehiring staff who either took voluntary redundancy or early retirement, MSPs were told.

Five of Scotland’s leading voluntary organisations have come together to drive forward self-directed support in Scotland.

The lack of residential respite care for young disabled adults in Inverness has been criticised by parents.

The SSSC are to host a social services careers webinar on 15 March at 3pm to 4pm.

Homeless Scots in London are to benefit from money confiscated from crooks and fraudsters, the Scottish Government announced today.

PEOPLE in Wester Ross are being asked to have their say next week on the local implications of a major care shake-up.

THE watchdog Care Inspectorate (CI) has upheld no fewer than five complaints levelled by the daughter of an elderly resident at the specialist home for dementia sufferers at Craw Wood in Tweedbank.