The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) has been working in partnership with NHS Education for Scotland to help develop their new online qualification search tool  — the VQ Finder.

There has been a failed attempt to prevent any Dundee councillor from attending a conference.

THERE were 74 children in Angus on the Child Protection Register in March – a drop of 18 on the previous year, Angus Council social work and health committee heard at their meeting on Thursday.

AN ELDERLY woman with dementia was locked for between two and three hours in a storage area known as “the attic” in a Dundee care home, a hearing was told yesterday.

Highland Council has awarded the contract for home-based respite services to an Edinburgh charity

ANGUS Council social work and health department’s annual report highlighted improvements across a range of services and showed a significant drop in the number of complaints received, the committee heard at their meeting on Thursday.

One of Scotland’s most violent gangs have been smashed by a major initiative – and it is to be copied in London in the aftermath of the English riots.

Scottish officials will try to contact Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to establish his condition after rebels entered the Libyan capital Tripoli.

A hard-hitting TV campaign offering hope to some of the most vulnerable people in society is to be repeated after a dramatic rise in referrals.

A series of health and safety failings has been uncovered during an audit of Dumfries and Galloway social services.