Billy Connolly has given his personal backing to a new campaign to encourage more people to foster and adopt children.

Complaints made by a Dundee man about the treatment his father received while in a Broughty Ferry nursing home have been upheld by Scotland’s care watchdog.

Five years after new Scottish mental health laws came into force, there’s a general consensus that the needs and wishes of people with mental health problems are being respected when it comes to their care and treatment.

Charities help those who are struggling but, as The Herald reveals today, many of Scotland’s 23,000 charities are struggling themselves.

Disabled campaigners will demonstrate today against MSP Margo MacDonald’s End of Life Assistance Bill at the Scottish Parliament.

The Labour group leader said on Monday night that “serious questions” have to be raised over Dundee City Council’s “hypocritical” decision to endorse a stand-up routine by a former drugs trafficker.

The new £12million Nairn Town and County Hospital is a shining example of how the NHS and social work must integrate to provide a holistic approach for residents, according to NHS Highland chairman Garry Coutts.

Red Cross volunteers worked throughout yesterday afternoon to help staff evacuate 41 elderly residents from a care home – less than a year after floods swamped the same building.

A new report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows that not only is Scotland’s unemployment rate back to 1996 levels, but poverty is now hitting childless adults harder than pensioners or children.

IRISS have announced the launch of ‘Insights’, a new series of reports providing the social services workforce with brief, accessible and practice-oriented summaries of published evidence on key topics.