There are claims that some elderly people who should be receiving care at home in the strath are being left to fend for themselves because of staff shortages.

A DUMFRIES woman who put alcohol in a teenager’s soft-drink has been removed from the child care register.

A LOCAL woman claims her learning-disabled brother is being bullied into moving to full-time nursing care against his wishes.

Renfrewshire Council has the worst record in Scotland for protecting private data, a campaign group claimed.

Campaigners battling against Fife Council’s plan to privatise its council-run care homes for the elderly fear the plan is still on the table, reports Gail Milne.

A surprise inspection found staff morale was low at a Highland care home under fire over the death of a patient.

TORYGLEN looks set to be the site of a new care home as part of a multi million pound project being promoted by Glasgow City Council.

THE owner of Wyvis House Care Home at Dingwall agreed with a sheriff that record keeping at the home had “fallen apart”.

The court started at Dunfermline Sheriff Court last year and has since dealt with 300 cases.

Ninety per cent of voluntary organisations in Scotland expect their own economic situation to worsen or stay the same over the next 12 months, according to the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.