A year on from a triple suicide, Tristan Stewart-Robertson reports on a growing mental-health crisis

Fife Council leader Peter Grant has launched a vigorous defence of the administration’s care homes decision and its handling of the situation.

Two Fife councillors will this week call for a vote of no confidence in the social work committee chairman over the controversial care homes issue.

TWO care homes have received positive reports from the Care Commission. Highbank Care Home and Highbank Day Care for Older People, both run by Midlothian Council, have respectively received “good” and “very good” ratings.

An Angus councillor has claimed the £9 million Carnoustie care home project has come “not a moment too soon.”

Scotland’s largest voluntary social care organisation is launching an innovative new counselling scheme in the Lothians next week.

THE grieving relatives of an elderly Cupar man who died in North Eden House at the weekend have spoken of their ‘disgust’ after a council meeting called to debate the future of Fife’s care homes descended into chaos after just a few minutes.

A total of 195 vulnerable adults were referred to social workers in Dundee in the first nine months of last year amid concerns they were being harmed.

BOSSES at a Paisley care home have been criticised after a 13-year-old boy hanged himself in his bedroom.

SOCIAL work bosses have halted admissions to a Kilmarnock nursing home after standards of care were found to be among the worst in Scotland.