SCOTLAND is in danger of being “left behind” in the provision of nursery care in the year ahead, Labour has warned.

A LOCH Lomondside pre-fives unit has received an outstanding report from a national inspection agency.

Highland councillors will be asked on Wednesday to approve plans by a private firm to build two new care homes in Ross-shire.

Charities across Scotland are set to benefit from almost £700,000 to expand and improve the information and  advice they provide to thousands of disabled people and carers.

UP to 15 new foster parents are needed immediately to help cope with the increasing number of children coming into the care of Scottish Borders Council (SBC).

The nursery at Musselburgh’s First Step community project has been graded as “excellent” following an announced care inspection.

More than two-thirds of prisoners serving time for drug-related offences have previously been in prison for a similar offence in the last decade, figures show.

A NEW operator has taken over a Hamilton care home formerly operated by Southern Cross. HC-One are now running the Douglas View Care Home which provides residential care for up to 74 older people and 26 younger people in a specialised unit.

PLANNING permission has been granted to turn a rural house between Kippen and Arnprior into a children’s care home, despite some locals saying there are too many care facilities in the area.

A Labour councillor has warned that the future of the region’s day centres could be threatened after a council vote went against his party’s call for a funding increase. But his claims were dismissed as “scaremongering” by the leader of the council.