SCOTLAND’S largest police force has united with the Care Commission to stop nurseries being used as a business front for money laundering.

Changes to benefit payments to be introduced next month will leave a third of Glasgow households worse off, it was claimed today

Aberdeen City Council’s social work department has undergone “significant and profound” change in the three years since it was ordered to take urgent action to address major failings, inspectors have found.

Social work and education premises are to be moved as part of Dundee City Council’s cost-cutting measures.

Highland councillors claimed yesterday the revamped care-at-home service is still failing those in need.

THE care home saga continued with further uncertainty about the position of the vice chairman of the Council’s social work committee – while the chairman survived a vote of no confidence.

FAMILIES who rely on the lifeline services provided by Cambuslang Community Carers and Rutherglen (CCCR) have made a desperate appeal to save the organisation.

RUTHERGLEN and Cambuslang’s 12 local councillors have reacted with anger to suggestions they sold Cambuslang Community Carers and Rutherglen down the river.

A teacher who assaulted a vulnerable pupil at a Church of Scotland school after an argument over a packet of crisps has been banned from the profession for life.

A child supervision order did not reach Edinburgh social workers until after Theresa Riggi had killed her three children.