NURSERY education for three-year-olds in the Borders will not now be provided because of £2.45million of council cuts.

“Eligibility criteria” are used by social work staff to decide which vulnerable people will get their needs met.  New guidance was agreed by COSLA and the Scottish Government in 2009.  

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”.

Unemployed people across North Lanarkshire are being encouraged to consider a career in several expanding sectors.

CONCERN has been raised that integrating council social work and social care services with the health board will be detrimental to West Dunbartonshire.

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”.

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.