ALMOST 50 elderly residents were rescued from a flood-threatened care home after torrential rain continued to sweep through the Highlands and north-east of Scotland.

A care group providing services to about 800 people with learning disabilities in Scotland and north-east England has gone into administration.

STEPS to improve the service provided by Deanfield nursing home have been taken after an inspection found staff were ‘run off their feet’.

Fife Council is pressing ahead with controversial plans to privatise its care home provision by formally seeking interest from the private or not- for-profit sector.

Constituency MSP Rob Gibson has waded into the row over transport to two North day care centres for adults with learning disabilities.

TAXES on disabled people have risen faster in West Dunbartonshire than anywhere else in Scotland.

A NEW service is being launched near Newmains to help battle drug and alcohol addictions.

FIR Park will play host to a new cafe aimed at helping those with memory problems. The Living Well with Dementia Cafe will run out of Motherwell FC’s Centenary Suite on the first Friday of every month.

Health and social care transport in Scotland is badly co-ordinated and monitored, leading to a waste of money and poor services, Audit Scotland says in a report published today.

PROSECUTORS have dropped the charges against an extended family who were accused of keeping children locked up in cages.