A HOMELESS charity has revealed it has been forced to close its advice service in the Borders after cash-strapped council chiefs cut its funding.

A NATIONAL care agency is the Scottish Labour Party’s much-touted solution to the coming crisis in care for the elderly, should it win the election in May.

A COUNCIL has cleared its social work department of blame over its role in a case where three children were stabbed to death by their mother.

TWO decades ago, as the morning sun kissed the shores of a Scottish island, a squad of strangers grabbed nine sleepy-eyed youngsters from their beds.

Family members whose loved one attend an East End care centre gathered in George Square to express fury at the council’s decision to demolish the facility to make way for a Commonwealth Games car park.

Asylum seekers in Glasgow are to get a new landlord – five months after the contract to house them was cancelled in controversial circumstances.

A NEW regime for regulating Scotland’s care and social work that comes into force today has been described as a “shambles” by a former manager.

A coalition of Glasgow charities is to fight a council scheme that has seen payments to full-time carers slashed by up to 80%.

A residential care worker was struck off after she admitted forming an “inappropriate” relationship with a 15-year-old boy she was looking after.

STIRLING and Clackmannanshire Councils are heralding a new way of working for local government in Scotland by running their education and social services jointly.