Fife’s services for the elderly will have to undergo a major overhaul if hospitals are not to struggle to cope with the demand for beds.

The Scottish Government has defended Fife Council’s controversial decision to privatise its residential care service.

North Lanarkshire Council is to use money earmarked for an older person’s day centre in Motherwell to pay for road repairs – but claim the complex will still go ahead.

FORMER clients of Cambuslang Community Carers and Rutherglen have accused the council of renegading on promises that their care packages would not be cut.

Claims the residents of a Bonnyrigg care home could be made homeless due to the operator’s financial problems have been strenuously denied.

A CHILDREN 1ST service in Moray has introduced a service that helps parents who have experienced sexual abuse in their childhood. The service, called Stronger Safer Families for parents, will provide support and help them deal with any issues arising from their experiences of sexual abuse, which are having an impact on their parenting.

A former social work boss claims greedy relatives steal £1million a year from elderly family members.

THE Scottish Government has been criticised by victims of one of the country’s worst child abuse scandals, who say it has failed to hold to account institutions guilty of sexual, physical and psychological attacks on vulnerable children.

AN influential health body has called for a delay to proposals by a Scottish university to axe its school of nursing.

The boss of the largest arm’s-length company created by Glasgow City Council is to quit his £130,000 post.