The council’s community care boss has outlined a future where the elderly and those suffering from dementia will increasingly be looked after at home and “allowed” to do as much for themselves as possible.

A RUTHERGLEN nursery worker this week appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court on two child sex abuse charges.

AFTER 20 years on the go some organisations can start to lose their drive as initial enthusiasm and early successes become just dim memories overshadowed by the long and weary slog of the day to day.

A CARE home boss lost more than £800,000 on the stock market before his business collapsed.

RESEARCHERS have developed a smartphone app designed to help diagnose strokes.

Almost £300,000 of funding to support the Scottish Government’s autism strategy was announced by Public Health Minister Michael Matheson.

UP TO 270 Dumfries & Galloway Council posts will be axed during the current round of budget cuts. The positions will be lost through voluntary redundancies and early retirements.

A nurse who attacked a resident in a nursing home after he complained about the volume of a TV set has been handed a community service sentence.

A report into the role of social workers and health care staff in the case of murdered toddler Declan Hainey says things “could, and should have been done differently”.

In the first joint education initiative of its kind in Scotland, NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) have produced an educational resource for the entire health and social services workforce in Scotland.