This research was commissioned by the SSSC to provide an evidence base for understanding the current situation in relation to Post Registration Training and Learning (PRTL) of newly qualified social workers (NQSW) and to examine how NQSW’s are evidencing the impact their PRTL has on their practice.

The chairman of NHS Highland is taking on a new role as rector of the prospective University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI).

It will cost Scottish Borders Council £1.3million this year to keep nine local children in safe accommodation outwith the region.

THE welfare of residential care home residents, their families and all those who use respite and day care services in Fife comes first.

Aberdeen City Council is considering the policy to rule out people who smoke from taking care of children.

Politicians have been accused of using elderly people as “pawns” in a game of care home “chess.”

The introduction of the PVG Scheme has been postponed until February 2011 to ensure the system which supports it is as robust as it can be before it goes live.

Labour councillors in Fife have accused the SNP/Lib Dem administration of being “less than honest” with the public over the future of the region’s council-run residential care homes.

Campaigners fighting the closure of a respite centre which offers short breaks for people with physical disabilities pleaded for the facility to be given a reprieve yesterday.

Highland councillors yesterday rejected proposals to build a 90-bed care home in Lochaber, with one local member branding it “a granny farm on an industrial scale”.