A Fife project that uses GPS technology to help support people with dementia has been shortlisted in the COSLA Excellence Awards.

Latest figures reveal that Highland Council’s care service is in crisis, according to SNP opposition councillors.

THIRTY workers are facing the dole while service users are looking at an uncertain future after Cambuslang Community Carers and Rutherglen were forced to announce their closure last week.

ONE in seven children in West Dunbartonshire is living in severe poverty – the second highest proportion in the country.

INCREASED availability of social work referral schemes could help cut re-offending for crimes where it is not in the public interest to prosecute, according to a new study.

A senior Fife Labour councillor has described as “hypocrisy” comments by council leader Peter Grant in relation to the future of the region’s care homes.

A council faced with having to make £55million of cuts in the next two years is to give £85,000 to help prevent families losing their homes.

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

COSLA will not champion Dumfries and Galloway council’s campaign for more kinship care cash.

MEMBERS of the armed forces are being let down when they return to civilian life because of a confusing array of voluntary organisations and secrecy surrounding their personal information, campaigners and veterans groups have claimed.