Minister for Youth Employment Angela Constance announced that £8.5 million will be invested in projects to support young people into work.

A NEW partnership called the ‘Whole System Approach’ has been launched in Angus as an effective way of working with high risk young people involved in offending.

RESEARCH into child sexual exploitation has been commissioned by the Scottish Government to understand the scale of the problem.

The deadline for entries to this year’s Care Accolades has been extended to Monday 20 February 2012 to give social services across Scotland time to enter for these prestigious awards.

A hard-hitting knife crime campaign which has proven highly successful in educating young people about the dangers and consequences of carrying a knife is to be launched in the communities of North and South Lanarkshire.

The success or value for money of services to reduce reoffending in Scotland cannot be determined based on the data currently gathered by the Government, says a parliamentary report published today.

A support group dedicated to dads in Aberdeen is breaking down barriers to offer help, advice and education for fathers as they bid to become better parents.

FIVE thousand unemployed people across North Lanarkshire are to be helped to find work through a £15 million council initiative.

A HORRENDOUS catalogue of neglect, cruelty and abuse at nursing homes run by the collapsed care giants Southern Cross can be revealed today.

A COUNCILLOR has intervened in the case of a Borders dad who claims he has been forced into debt because the petrol allowance he receives for conveying his disabled son to a special school in Dundee has been slashed, writes Andrew Keddie.