Additional funding of £100,000 for day centres was approved at a meeting of East Lothian Council’s Cabinet on Tuesday.

AN alliance of learning disability charities has welcomed a decision by Glasgow City Council to seek new bidders to run services previously operated by the collapsed company Choices Care.

COMPLAINTS against a troubled Greenock care home have been upheld by a standards watchdog.

Well-wishers old and young gathered to witness the opening of one of Scotland’s most sustainable care homes.

A social worker has described how the axing of car allowances by South Lanarkshire Council is impacting on the ability of frontline workers to carry out essential aspects of their job.

A FORMER senior councillor has called for formal training to be given to Borders social work staff after the revelation that, in the first eight months of this year, there were just under 100 recorded physical or violent incidents involving social work staff on duty.

The number of criminals on the sex offenders register has reached a record high and those breaching the terms of their release has increased for the third year in a row.

The Scottish Government has agreed to match up to £1.5 million the funds raised by a charity appeal to help children in poverty.

Scotland’s foster chiefs have warned of an acute shortage of carers, as the number of children in care continues to rise.

Plans for a care home on the site of a former private school look set to get the go-ahead.