RESCUERS and local residents have been praised for their efforts to help 59 pensioners after a massive blase at an Inverness nursing home

Councillors in Fife have agreed the local authority should remain a direct provider of residential care services, although questions remain about the long-term future of several council-run care homes.

Social Services Knowledge Scotland website – www.ssks.org.uk – has just re-launched with lots of new helpful features designed to support the sector.

In a report published today, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) called for a different approach to public sector reforms in Scotland to deliver for higher demand with limited resources.

Emergency trips to hospital have increased by more than 25% among Scotland’s pensioners, despite the investment of millions of pounds extra in community care, figures have revealed.

A new “winter of discontent” has edged closer as it emerged that thousands of care workers, catering staff and school janitors have taken the first steps towards a possible wave of industrial action by the end of the year.

Dozen of elderly people have spent the night in temporary accommodation after fire destroyed a nursing home in the Inverness area.

The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR) will be staging two one-day events focusing on ‘gangs and global exchange’ in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, on 2nd and 3rd December 2010.

The Workforce Unit are interested in your experiences of using outcomes tools in social care and support settings.

A project that pioneered urban street play in Scotland and transformed the lives of young people growing up in one of the country’s most deprived communities, marks its 10th anniversary this month on October 15.