A WISHAW care home has been blasted by watchdogs for a catalogue of failures – including giving scrapped UK medicine to a patient who didn’t even need it.

A CAFE offering support to people with dementia launched last week at Rutherglen Town Hall. Rutherglen Dementia Café was inaugurated on Tuesday and enjoyed a good turn out.

A national care regulator has called for a “radical change in culture” to protect vulnerable adults.

A FORMER city councillor has been banned from making solo visits to his elderly mother in a care home run by the beleaguered Southern Cross Healthcare company after complaining about her treatment.

A SHAKE-UP of homelessness policy will cost 30 jobs in the voluntary sector and could leave some of the city’s most vulnerable people without vital support, it was claimed today.

A COMPANY is recruiting 50 new care workers to help look after vulnerable or elderly people in Edinburgh.

Scheme sees 400 gang members sign up to a pledge of non-violence, with knife-carrying down by almost 60%

AN INVERNESS care home has suspended admissions following a threat of closure due to its failure to improve standards of care for residents.

A MAJOR Scottish Government commissioned report will today call for the break-up of the bureaucratic empires governing health and social care, having concluded that Scotland’s public services are “patchwork”, “outdated” and “producer-led”.

The SSSC has published new guidance on reporting poor practice in Scotland.  The SSSC Codes of Practice sets out the standards of professional conduct and practice for workers as you go about your daily work.