High quality social care is a must, not an optional extra as the demand for high quality social services continues to grow, says a new report looking at the social services workforce and the changing ways that services are provided and delivered in Scotland.

Scottish Borders Council has begun a review of the impact of changes to its charges for social care services.

A HIGHLY successful anti-crime scheme for young offenders has been given a temporary reprieve.

A fomer Fife social worker has been struck off the register after the Scottish Social Services Council found him guilty of misconduct.

Services which support carers in North Lanarkshire are set to benefit from more than £730,000 of funding from the local authority.

CARE workers at the Elsie Inglis Nursing Home have been called “murderers” and chased down the street, employees have said.

VITAL services for Scots with HIV are under threat as councils make cutbacks to save money, the outgoing head of a leading Aids charity has warned.

An Edinburgh private nursing home has been given a deadline to make “urgent and immediate improvements” to its standards of care or it faces closure.

The first female rabbi to address the General Assembly of the Scotland has profiled the high standards that should be expected of faith-backed social care providers.

A call has been made for a senior councillor to be sacked, after allegations he was abusive towards a carer fighting to save a centre for the disabled.