A Broughty Ferry nursing home has been given the lowest mark possible in an official inspection report by Scotland’s care watchdog.

CONCERNS have been raised that patients in the region with HIV are receiving “an increasingly unsatisfactory and potentially substandard provision of care”.

A MUM who ripped large chunks of hair from the heads of two social workers, has been ordered to perform 80 hours of Community Service and to pay her victims £150 each in compensation.

COMPLAINTS to South Lanarkshire’s social work department fell last year despite an increase in general enquiries from the public in the local area.

A Tory candidate for next year’s Scottish Parliament elections has sneered at children’s carers, saying they looked like “the great unwashed”.

Social work services in some Scottish prisons lack direction and staff often have little idea how effective they are being, according to inspectors.

Glasgow Social Care Providers Forum is to relaunch as the Social Care Ideas Factory, with a commitment to focus on driving social change and transformation.

SCOTTISH Tory leader Annabel Goldie was today due to call for charities and voluntary groups to be more involved in providing public services.

THE SNP have failed in a last ditch attempt to save Leslie House Care Home in Motherwell from closure.

A CHARITY that brings local news to blind people is facing a funding crisis. Kilmarnock and Loudoun Social, Recreational and Communication Services for the Blind has provided a ‘talking newspaper’ service for almost 30 years.